再论中国文学与世界文学:大卫·达姆罗什访谈录

Reconsidering Chinese Literature and World Literature:An Interview with David Damrosch

大卫·达姆罗什(1),哈佛大学厄内斯特·伯恩鲍姆比较文学讲席教授、比较文学系主任、世界文学研究所所长。他的研究涉及比较文学和世界文学研究的理论与方法、圣经与古代近东文学、现代欧洲与全球英语文学。他在世界文学与比较文学方面著述丰富,代表作包括《什么是世界文学?》(2003)、《如何阅读世界文学》(2009)、《比较多种文学:全球化时代的文学研究》(2020)等。他倡导的"流通说"极大地推动了世界文学研究。陈礼珍教授就世界文学、中国文学与全球文学的最新讨论等话题采访了达姆罗什教授。在访谈中,达姆罗什教授捍卫了自己有关世界文学的观点,并对现今批评界试图用"全球文学"和"星球文学"取代"世界文学"的构想进行了评论。达姆罗什教授重申了他的世界文学理念和立场,修正了自己早先将世界文学视为在全球市场内一种传播与阅读模式和一种过程的主张,更加关注世界文学如何走进一个特定国家的文学市场。

David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature,Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Director of the Institute for World Literature,Harvard University.His research fields include theory and methods of comparative literature and world literary studies,Bible and ancient Near Eastern literatures,modern European and global Anglophone literatures.He has written widely on world literature and comparative literature.Along with his numerous articles,his books include What Is World Literature?(2003),How to Read World Literature(2009)and Comparing the Literatures:Literary Studies for a Global Age(2020).His theory of circulation has a far-reaching influence on world literary studies.He is interviewed by Chen Lizhen on the issues of world literature,Chinese literature and the recent discussions of global literature in the intellectual community of China.In this interview,Professor Damrosch defends his idea of world literature and comments on the current critical inclinations of replacing“world literature”with“global literature”or“planetary literature”.Professor Damrosch reiterates his stress on world literature.By paying more attention to the way in which world literature comes into a given national market,he tries to modify his earlier proposition of taking world literature as a mode of circulation and reading as well as a process in the global market.