“理论”之后的理论:21世纪西方文学理论刍议

Theory After"Theory":A Tentative Study on Western Literary Theory in the 21st Century

21世纪的西方文学理论逐渐形成“‘理论’之后的理论”范式。文学理论经历了从“大”到“小”的裂变,呈现出跨学科和异质化的倾向。各种“边缘理论”和“亚理论”众声喧哗,颠覆了理论以往单一的宏大叙事模式。“理论”之后的理论关注全球化语境下的多语种、多文化的文学研究,发掘以往被遗忘和被压制文本的新文学史。此外,文学理论时尚化和市场化也是“理论”之后的理论的重要特征。文学理论的市场化和学术出版的经济学促成了“新经济文学批评”的形成。概言之,“理论”之后的理论是一个开放、流动、块茎状的体系,以延异的方式展现其多元性和差异性。

Western literary theory in the 21st Century forms the paradigm of"theory after"Theory"gradually.Literary theory undergoes the fission from"big"to"small",showing the interdisciplinary and heterogenous tendency.Various kinds of""marginal theory"and""sub-theory"make numerous voices,and subvert the unitary narrative pattern of grand theory previously.Theory after"Theory"pays close attention to plurilingual and multi-cultural literary study under the context of globalization,and discovers new literary theory which has been forgotten and suppressed before.Furthermore,the fashionalization and marketization are also the key features of theory after"Theory".The marketization of literary theory and the economics of academic publication contribute to the formation of"new economic literary criticism",In summary,theory after"Theory"is an open,fluid,rhizomatic system,which presents its pluralism and heterogeneity with the pattern of differance.