当代西方中国文学史中的古代小说叙述——对《哥伦比亚中国文学史》与《剑桥中国文学史》的研究

On the Representation of Traditional Chinese Fiction in Contemporary Western Histories of Chinese Literature: Centered on The Columbia History of Chinese Literature and The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature

《哥伦比亚中国文学史》与《剑桥中国文学史》是当今西方最具代表性的中国文学史著作,其中对中国古代小说的叙述反映了西方汉学界的新成果与新视野。本文梳理了中国古代小说知识体系在两部文学史中的呈现状态,分析了两书对中国古代小说的不同叙述方式,进而探讨其背后所体现的西方学术视野与方法,并分析其得失。

The Columbia History of Chinese Literature and The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature are the most representative histories of Chinese Literature in the West today.Their accounts of traditional Chinese fiction manifest the latest achievements and new horizons of Sinologyin the West.This essay sorts out the present state of the knowledge system of traditional Chinese novels in these two histories,analyzes the different ways of narration of traditional Chinese novels,and then discusses the Western academic perspectives and methods reflected behind them,while analyzing their successes and failures.