20世纪中国文学叙事中城乡观念的演替

The Development of the Concepts of the City and the Countryside in 20^(th)-Century Chinese Literary Narrative

在整个20世纪至今的中国文学叙事中,城市与乡村并不只是一对刻板的地域概念,更是一对互为参照的文化观念体系。两者之间不单是空间的对峙,也暗含着时间维度上"过去"与"未来"的两种价值之间的博弈。文学中的"城市"与"乡村"处于两种极化的想象之中,这种极化的想象又反过来强化了现实的社会差异,并且赋予这种差异以价值性的审美内涵。

In the Chinese literary narrative from the 20th century to the present, the city and the countryside are not just a pair of rigid regional concepts, but also a pair of cultural concepts that are mutually referred to. They are not only the confrontation in space, but also the game between the two values of the"past"and the"future"in the temporal dimension. The city and the countryside in literature are in polarized imagination. This polarized imagination, in turn, reinforces the social differences in reality, and endows this difference with the aesthetic connotation of merits and demerits.