大众文化研究的“新左派”范式再考察

Research on the“New Left”Paradigm of Popular Culture Study

随着大众文化的纵深发展,形成于1990年代的"新左派"大众文化研究范式的可取之处及其局限性都越加明显。简而言之,其可取之处是对大众文化的意识形态性及其资本化的文化逻辑有致命地批评。其局限性主要是它未曾对大众文化作具体化与语境化的考辨,因此不能积极地看待大众文化的性质与功能。这在一定程度上使得当前大众文化研究的价值观出现了问题。因此有必要对"新左派"大众文化研究范式进行再考察,这对依然处在转型中的当代文学理论建设与发展也不无启发意义。

With the further development of popular culture,merits and limitations of ＂New Left＂ paradigm of popular culture study that formed in the 1990＇s are increasingly obvious.In short,there are fatal criticism on the ideology of popular culture and its cultural logic of capitalization, which is its merits.Its main limitation is that it was never differentiate and analyzes popular culture in specific and contextualized manner,the nature and function of popular culture can not be viewed positively therefore, the values problem of the current popular culture studies axe affect by it to some extent, it is necessary to reexamine ＂new left＂ paradigm of popular culture study. It also has the significance to contemporary literary theory construction and development which is still in transition.