新历史主义的视域与研究路径

New Historicism: the Perspective and the Approaches

作为文化批评,视域宽广的新历史主义为人们重新认识文学与历史的关系提供了新的机遇。以新历史主义的视域、研究路径与方法为题展开系统论述,指出其全景化视域为观看人类生命实践、符号建构活动奠定了始基,以文学作为路径来认识历史提供了新的研究导向,新历史主义拓展文学的意涵,取消文学文本与历史文本间的边界,通过权力话语分析揭示宏大叙事的虚假,用多元化叙事对历史进行重新书写。作为一种思维样式,新历史主义从根本上改变着人对历史的认知方式和书写方式;作为研究路径与实践的方法,为文学创作者、文化实践者提供了一种新型的介入文化创作活动、实践活动的通途。

As a cultural criticism, the New Historicism with a broad horizon provides a new opportunity for re-understanding the relationship between literature and history. The paper develops a systematic discussion on the vision, the exploring path and the means of New Historicism. It points out that its panoramic horizon offers the basic conditions for observing the activities of human life practice and the symbol construction. Literature, as a way to understand history, provides a new research orientation. The New Historicism expands the implications of literature and abolishes the boundaries between literary text and the historical text. It has revealed the false of the grand narrative by the power discourse analysis and rewrites histories with diversified narratives. As a mode of thinking, the New Historicism fundamentally changes the individuals’ cognitive mode and writing mode of history. As an exploring path and an approach to practice, it opens up a new way for literary creators and cultural practitioners to get involved in cultural creation and practice.