论发展想象力作为童年文学的主导功能

Childhood Literature:Literature for Imagination Developing

面向6-12岁孩子的童年文学是儿童文学的主体与核心部分,作为前后承接幼年文学与少年文学的中间地带,其主导的文学功能体现在发展儿童的想象力方面。基于对中外儿童文学史、理论批评成果的梳理概括,发现“想象力”映合儿童的本能需求,是促使儿童喜爱并接受文学的第一推动力。童年是发展想象力最关键最集中的时期,想象力在童年文学中的审美特质主要体现为“新奇”。解决当前我国童年文学的发展困境与可持续发展问题,从美学原点出发,我们需要强化与引领的观念要旨就在“想象力”。

Childhood literature for 6-12 years old children is the major and core part of children’s literature.It works as a middle zone,linking infancy literature and juvenile literature,and its leading literary function is reflected by the development of children’s imagination.Based on a summary of the children’s literary history in both China and foreign countries,together with the theoretical criticism,this paper finds that imagination meets the instinctual needs of children,and is the first impetus to make children accept and love literature.Childhood is the most critical and centralized period for developing imagination.The aesthetic feature of imagination in childhood literature is mainly reflected as novelty.To solve current development difficulties and sustainable problems in Chinese children’s literature,starting from the origin of aesthetic,the concept of imagination needs to be strengthened and guided.