反思的反思——评《中国古代小说史研究的反思与重构》

The Reflection of Reflections——A Comment on The Reflection and Reconstructionon the Research in History of Ancient Chinese Fiction

《中国古代小说史研究的反思与重构》是一部对中国古代小说史研究进行深刻反思与重新建构的著作,它充分反映出作者的史胆、史识、史才、史学。作者在著作中,大胆批判了鲁迅《中国小说史略》中的进化论思想,深刻分析了中国小说史研究中的四个误区,重新界定了小说的定义和外延,把中国小说的起源时间前推到西周时期,并且论述了《尚书》《论语》《左传》等典籍在小说史上的地位。

The Reflection and Reconstruction on the Research in History of An-cient Chinese Fiction is a book with profound reflections and reconstruction of the research in history of ancient Chinese fictions,which shows two authors＇ courage,insight,talent,knowledge in terms of the fiction history. The authors bravely criticize the theory of evolution in Lu Xun＇s A Brief History of Chinese Fiction,point out the four type of misunderstandings in related traditional researches,redefine the intension and extension of the fiction,dating the origin of Chinese fiction back to the Dynasty of Xizhou and expounding the importance of Classic of History,The Analects of Confucius,Master Zuo＇s Spring and Autumn Annals and other ancient records in the history of Ancient Chinese Fiction.