重新审视“东方比较文学”

Re-thinking“Eastern Comparative Literature”

学界历来对“东方比较文学”的研究范围与内涵看法不一,其研究范围明显呈现广义与狭义之分,其内涵在学科范式与研究对象之间徘徊,但宗旨始终立足东方,聚焦东方自身的文学与文化比较,以此打破国际比较文学界陷于“欧洲中心主义”的僵局。近年,国内学界积极进行跨文明东西文学与文论比较,同时掀起一股东方研究热潮,要求回到“东方”,还原“东方”。在文明互鉴视野下,“东方比较文学”对于建立一个真正具有开放性、国际性的比较文学学科,意义重大,甚至其研究范围还可有所拓展,其中一个拓展方向即为东方文艺理论比较研究。重新审视“东方比较文学”,阐释其内涵,进而思考当下比较文学研究与文艺理论研究中的“东方”问题,是本文的旨归所在。

Scholars have long held different views on the scope and connotation of“Eastern Comparative Literature”:regarding the former,it can be understood in both broad and narrow sense;regarding the latter,it oscillates between a disciplinary paradigm and a research object.However,at its core has always been a rootedness in the East,focusing on comparative studies within Eastern literatures and cultures,so as to deconstruct“Eurocentrism”in international comparative literature studies.In recent years,while the Chinese academia has been engaged in comparative studies of Eastern and Western literature and literary theory,scholars have also embarked on Eastern studies,appealing to a return to and restoration of the East.“Eastern Comparative Literature”is of great significance to the establishment of a truly open and internationalized discipline of comparative literature studies.Its research scope can indeed be expanded,and one of the directions can be the comparative study of Eastern literary theories.This article is a rethinking of“Eastern Comparative Literature.”It elaborates on the connotation of this discipline,and discusses the question of the“East”that has been involved in current comparative literature and literary theory studies.