何去何从的“写作学”——兼论“文学创作”与“文学批评”的关系

Whither Writing Studies ——A Study on the Relations between Literary Creation and Literary Criticism

写作,乃用文字表达思想、情感。思想和情感伴随终生,写作理应如影随形。然而,大多数人的写作竟然止步于高考。作为一门独立学科的写作学,竟然在国内大学学科体系里找不到位置。近年来,风生水起的"创意写作"一定程度上改变了传统写作学几无立足之地的窘境。重新审视传统"写作学"面临的尴尬,重新评估"写作是否可以教",重新厘清"文学创作"与"文学批评"之间的关系,以解决这些长期困扰传统写作学的最基本最棘手的问题。此外,儿童文学创作者与儿童文学阅读者之间的代沟,决定了儿童文学创作和儿童文学批评的特殊性。

Writing is to express thoughts and emotions with words,which should be cultivated as a basic survival skill since the desire to state thoughts and emotion is inherent in human nature. However, most people’s writing education comes to an end after their college entrance examination in China's Mainland. Writing education has long been absent or neglected in domestic universities as an independent discipline. In recent years, the emergence of creative writing courses has changed this awkward phenomenon to a certain extent. This essay tries to re-examine the embarrassment faced by traditional writing studies, re-evaluate the question of whether literary writing can be taught, re-clarify the relationship between literary creation and literary criticism, and hope to solve the most basic and thorny issues that have plagued traditional writing education for a long time. In addition, I will argue that the generation gap between writers and readers of children’s literature determines the particularity of literary creation and criticism of this genre.