抒情与商业:《剑桥中国文学史》中的明代诗歌研究范式

Lyrical Tradition and Commercialization:On the Approaches of Ming Poetry in The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature

《剑桥中国文学史》于2013年出版了中文版,国内学界对这部文学史的讨论集中在判断其理论框架的优劣与利弊,但尚未思考欧美汉学为何会提出“文学文化史”的研究框架。《剑桥中国文学史》对于其读者群体的关注导致了这一研究框架的产生。此外,作为一个“边缘学科”,欧美汉学需要与西方学术体系内的主流学科进行互动,因此转向“跨学科研究”。以明代诗歌为例,欧美汉学所采用的研究方法大多是从西方学术体系内的主流学科借鉴而来的,这主要是因为欧美汉学在明代诗歌方面缺少“文学本位”的研究成果。

The Chinese edition of The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature is published in 2013.Most responses from the Chinese academia focus on judging the advantages and disadvantages of its theoretical framework,and yet forget to consider why such a framework is proposed by western sinologists.This paper argues that due to the serious awareness of its“audience,”the framework of“literary-cultural history”is proposed.Moreover,as a“marginal discipline,”sinology needs to interact with those mainstream disciplines within the western academic system,thus it adopts the“interdisciplinary approach.”Taking Ming poetry as an example,the research methodologies are often imported from those mainstream disciplines,because the studies of Ming poetry from a“literary stand”are inefficient.