世界文学与中国现代小说

World Literature and Modern Chinese Fiction

歌德在19世纪20年代后期对世界文学的创造性阐释有助于后拿破仑时代的形塑。世界文学的复兴已成为当今东西方学者关注的另一个前沿理论课题。尽管学者们经常争论全球化对比较文学发展的有利或不利的影响,好像全球化是受文化环境变化影响的既存实体,本文认为伴随着欧洲中心主义和“西方中心主义”的消除,以及东方文化和文学的崛起而呈现出来的物质、文化和知识生产的全球化是有助于世界文学的发展的。此外,本文还以流散知识分子埃里希·奥尔巴赫、爱德华·赛义德、凌叔华为例,对世界文学与中国现代小说的发展及其关系进行了概述及诠释。

Goethe’s“invention”of Weltliteratur in the late 1820s helped shape a post-Napoleonic world.The revival of world literature has now become another cutting-edge theoretical topic on which both eminent Western and Eastern scholars are focusing today.Although scholars often debate globalization’s favorable or unfavorable impact on the development of comparative literature,as if it were a preexisting entity inflected by a changing cultural environment,this paper contends that the globalization of material,cultural,and intellectual production,followed by the dissolution of Eurocentrism and“West-centrism”and by the rise of Eastern culture and literature,has assisted the development of world literature in the context of globalization.Moreover,taking diaspora intellectuals Eric Auerbach,Edward Said,and Ling Shuhua,for example,this paper also gives a general account of the development and relationship between world literature and modern Chinese fiction.