民族特色与时代风格——关于中国古代文学研究现代化进程的思考

National Characters and the Spirit of the Contemporary Era——A Thought About the Modernizing Process of Classical Chinese Literary Studies

近些年来,古代文学文献整理工作大规模展开,文学研究观念、理论不断更新,在传承中拓新的古代文学研究,其成就主要体现在历史变迁视野中的文学史研究、逻辑建构层面的文学理论研究以及间接的文学外部研究、直接的文学本体研究等四个方面。尤其是“重写文学史”、古代文论的现代转换、“大文学”视域下的文学研究、文学本体研究等热点学术问题的集中探讨及相关实践,带动了古代文学研究整体水平的提升。古代文学研究的巨大成就,其表现不仅是具体的文献整理、文本研究和理论方法的探索,更重要的是形成了一种具有民族特色和时代风格的学术理念,这就是对于古代文学研究中国化道路的探索和追寻,对于民族文学精神传统的回归与认同。

Over the past few years, the collection and reorganization of classical Chinese literature and philologyhave been developing on a large scale. We have seen the constant evolution of the perspectives and theoriesin the field of literary studies. Classical Chinese literature studies, which are evolving from the academicachievements we have already made, have brought new contributions to the field in the following fouraspects: the study of literary history from the perspective of its historical context;the study of literarytheories upon their logical foundation, the indirect and external research of literature, and the direct andinternal study of its essence. In particular, the rewriting of literary history, the modern transformation oftheoretical studies of classical literature, literary studies under the broad vision of Big Literature, the studyof literary ontology are among the most heatedly discussed topics in the field, and the focused discussion andrelevant practice of which have led to the improvement of the overall level of classical Chinese literaturestudies. The huge accomplishment of classical Chinese literature studies is not only reflected by the resultsof textual collection and reorganization, but more importantly, it also stands for the academic philosophy thatreflects both national characters and the spirit of the contemporary era, which is the exploration and pursuitof the path to the Sinicization of classical Chinese literature studies and the conversion to and identificationof the traditional Chinese literary spirit.