外国文学学术史研究的视野层面与方法路径

Research on the academic history of foreign literature in China:Vision,method and path

中国的外国文学学术史研究离不开三个核心词:文献、学术、思想,由此可构成包括文献史料学、学术史与思想史在内的交互阐释网络。学术史的基础是文献史料的搜罗考订与编年整理,需要特别注重中国语境里外国文学研究的原典性文献的搜集、整理及评述。学术史课题必须要放置到思想史语境才能得到有效和深入的阐释,因为思想史的方法有助于我们理解中国的外国文学研究所展示的思维方式、价值观念、想象逻辑及情感特质,并思考在不同时代环境与文化氛围中,人们所做出的对外国文学经典及思潮观念的诸种选择。同时,我们希望能从学术转型与文化转型、传统学术与现代学术的关系角度,对外国文学研究的时代转型进行观照,阐释其动因、范式与内在机制。外国文学在中国的研究历程,既折射出中国不同时期的特定文化需要与意识形态诉求,也显示出外国文学在异域文化背景中的接受变异特征。

The academic history of foreign literature in China cannot be separated from three key terms:literature,scholarship,and thought,all of which constitute an interactive interpretation network involving literature and historical materials,academic history and intellectual history.Academic history bases itself on the collection,examination and chronology of historical documentary materials,particularly original documents for foreign literary research in the Chinese context.Topics in academic history must be placed in the context of intellectual history so that they can be effectively and thoroughly interpreted,for the method of intellectual history helps us to better understand the way of thinking,values,imaginative logic,and emotional qualities displayed in the study of foreign literature in China,and to examine the choices made by people of different eras and cultural atmospheres regarding foreign literary classics and ideological trends.Meanwhile,we hope to provide insights into the era transformation of foreign literary research from the perspective of academic transformation and cultural transformation as well as the relationship between traditional scholarship and modern scholarship,and further reveal the motivation,paradigm and internal mechanism of the research.The research history of foreign literature in China not only reflects China's specific cultural needs and ideological demands in different periods,but also shows the reception characteristics of foreign literature in the context of foreign cultures.