书生的功夫全在书内——试说《宋代文学批评的象喻特色研究》之成就

A Scholar Dwells completely in Books A Study of the Image-Analogical Criticism in Song Dynasty China and Its Achievement

专著《宋代文学批评的象喻特色研究》是中国文学批评史断代专题研究的重要学术成果。该书以伯格森的生命哲学、黑格尔的象征学说以及胡塞尔的现象学为学理支撑,具有轮廓清晰的理论框架。自然象喻、生活象喻、身体象喻和复合象喻为该书特色鲜明的四个板块。作者具有敏锐的学术眼光,进行了审美心理的入微探索,并提出了合乎实际的论断:中国的象喻文学批评肇始于《周易》。作者对中医藏象理论的运用体现了进行跨学科研究的能力。同时,作者对于民俗高度熟悉,各种材料信手拈来,相关解释恰到好处,宋人生活的逼真复现为该书的亮点,它既得到了集中的论述,又贯彻于全书始终。作者稔熟宋代文献,该研究的成功启迪我们:书生的功夫全在书内。

A Study of the Image-Analogical Criticism in Song Dynasty China,a monograph,is an important achievement made in the form of an academic treatise,which deals with the Song Dynasty as a separate period in the history of Chinese literary criticism. This book has a clear theoretical framework in that its theoretic tripod is made up of H. Bergson＇s life philosophy,G. W. F. Hegel＇s doctrine of symbols,and E.Husserl＇s phenomenology. Natural image-analogies,life image-analogies,body image-analogies,and compound image-analogies constitute its four blocks brilliant in features. Its author has keen academic eyesight,with which he profoundly probes into the aesthetic psychology,and furthermore he draws a true-to-fact conclusion that Chinese image-analogical criticism starts from the Book of Changes. He applies the organ-image theory of Chinese medicine,as embodies his ability to proceed in the interdisciplinary research. In the meanwhile he is highly familiar with the folklore so that various materials are used nimbly and explained just to the point. Many a picture of how the Song literati lived then is exhibited,as is the bright spots of this book in that its author discusses their life both intensively and separately. All in all,its author is highly familiar with the Song literature and relative documents. This is a successful research,which tells us a simple truth that the workmanship of a scholar dwells completely in books.