异趣·影响·意识形态——英国浪漫主义东方想象的三大研究范式

Exoticism, Influence and Ideology: The Major Paradigms of Orientalist Imagination in British Romanticism

英国浪漫主义文学作品对"东方"的想象日益受到当代学术界的重视,成为一个重要的研究领域。相关的研究包括他者形象研究、溯源影响研究以及后殖民主义的历史文化-意识形态研究等三大范式。但是,对于"东方"想象何以呈现出内在的异质性,既有的研究范式并未给出令人满意的解答。本文认为,将现代性批判引入后殖民主义研究之中,也许能有效地解决这一难题,成为这一领域内新的范式选择。

The Orientalist imagination constructed by British Romantic writers in their works has drawn increasing attention from academia and established itself to be an important discipline of Romanticism. The related academic works can thus fall into the paradigms of exotic-image studies, source-influence studies, and historio-ideological studies in post-colonialism. In view that those paradigms are short in explaining the intrinsic heterogeneity of the imagination, this essay purports that the introduction of the critique of modernism to post-colonialism may be a new option to address the difficulty.