四十年来外国文学研究的成就、问题与思考

Achievements,Problems and Reflections on Foreign Literature Research in the Past Forty Years

20世纪70年代末以来,中国的外国文学研究在各类文学史著作编写、作家作品专题研究、研究资料整理与汇编等方面都取得了突出成就,但这一研究领域还存在一些带有普遍性的问题,包括多种非文学的理论对文学研究的困扰,把进化论搬进文学研究领域以及文学研究中的“泛文化”倾向等。追溯这些问题产生的根源,加强文学本位意识和文学批评史的系统研究,将有利于从根本上优化研究者的知识结构,最终迎来中国外国文学研究的振兴与繁荣。

Foreign literature research in China have made great achievements in various fields,such as literature history writing,monographic study of writers and works,collection and compiling of research data since the end of 1970s.However,there are still some universal problems,including the perplexity caused by non-literature theories,intervention of the evolution theory,tendency of pan-culture,etc.To solve these problems and boom foreign literature research in China,researchers need improve their knowledge structure by tracing back the sources of these problems,strengthening the basic consciousness of literature and the systematic study of literature criticism history.