西洋器物文明中的感觉修辞——钱锺书阅读视野中的近代“游记新学”

The Rhetoric of the Feeling in Western Material Culture:On A New Study of Travelling Notes by Qian Zhongshu

晚清海外旅行写作所产生的知识生产新门类,可以"游记新学"称之,其内容与视野在很大程度上与近代中国文学的发展脉络关系密切,颇有起衰之功。钱锺书曾计划写一本论述晚清输入西洋文学的小书,对于这部分材料有独特的关注兴趣,着眼于诗文比兴中的"新感觉",今天看来在历史与文学研究的细节方面不无启发。本文试图通过对他已刊著作和身后影印出版的《手稿集》,对那些零散的资料做一些梳理贯通和进一步阐释的工作。

The“New Study of TravellingNotes”,whose contents and visions are closely related to the development of modern Chinese literature to a large extent,is a new category of knowledge produced by overseas travel writing in the late Qing Dynasty.Qian Zhongshu,while planing to write a small book on the introduction of Western literature into the late Qing Dynasty,has a unique interest in this part of the materials,focusing on the“new feeling”in the poetry and prose comparison,which seems to have a great inspiration to today’s study on the details of history and literature.This paper attempts to sort out and further expounds the scattered materials through his published works and The Collection of Manuscripts photocopied and published after his death.