清末报刊与文学的共生性繁荣与世界的“图象化”

The Symbiotic Prosperity of Newspaper and Literature and the“Visualization”of the World

近现代文学不同于古典文学的一个重要差异在于其传播媒介的变化,即以中国传统版籍传播为主的方式向由西方引入的报刊传播为主的方式的转变,由此带来的是报刊与文学的共生性的繁荣。现代报刊担负起了催生现代文学的孵化器的作用,两者的结缘使文学走出了个人狭小的经验世界,营造出一种超出于个人直接经验之上的共有的现实,从而推动了人与世界的关系及人的生存态度的变化。"世界成为图象"和"人成为主体"是代表了现代性本质的两大进程,这种进程对于文学有直接的影响,"世界的图象化"催生出来的认识世界的要求开始成为文学的最为重要的驱动力,"认识成为小说唯一的道德",《海上花列传》的现代性审美价值也正在于此。

One of the important differences between modern literature and classical literature lies in the change of its media, namely, the change from traditional books to newspaper. This change then resulted in the symbiotic prosperity of newspaper and literature. Modern newspaper took on the role of an incubator for modern literature, enabling literature to step out from individual＇s narrow world of experience, forming a common reality that was transcending individual＇s direct experience, and promoting the evolution of the relationship between people and their world and the development of people＇s attitude of existence. The＂visualization of the world＂and＂human＇s becoming the subject＂represented two important processes of development in modernity, processes that had direct influence on literature. The desire to know the world, a desire germinating out of the visualization of the world, became the most important motive for literature and cognition became the only moral of literature. These two features are exactly what characterize the aesthetic value of A History of the Brothel Life in Shanghai.