历史意识、多元主体与经济人文转向——《剑桥文学与经济研究指南》述评

Historical Consciousness, Multiple Economic Subjects, and a Turn to Economic Humanities: A Review of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics

经过21世纪的勃兴与发展,文学经济学批评主要通过文学的经济表征和经济的文学修辞探讨经济知识的理论范式和物质现实。保罗·克罗斯维特等教授主编的《剑桥文学与经济研究指南》(2022)便是文学经济学批评的最新研究成果。通过分析文学和经济学的近缘关系、文学话语和经济话语之间的张力、异质多元的经济主体和经济人文的跨学科想象等四个层面,《剑》表明了文学经济学批评的历史意识、多元主体和经济人文转向,拓宽了文学经济学批评的研究视野。经济人文致力于构建文学与经济学的平等对话,丰富彼此的理论话语,共同提升人们对社会经济生活的认知想象。

After years of rise and development in the 21st century,economic literary criticism has mainly examined economic representations of literature and literary rhetoric of economics to explore conceptual paradigms and material realities in relation to economic language.Edited by Professor Paul Crosthwaite and others,The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics(2022)is one of the latest research achievements in this critical field.Analyzing the relationships between literature and economics,the tensions between literary and economic discourses,the heterogeneous and diverse economic subjects,and the interdisciplinary imaginations of economic humanities,it demonstrates historical consciousness,multiple subjects,and the shift towards economic humanities,broadening the research perspectives of economic literary criticism.Economic humanities aim to construct an equal dialogue between literature and economics,enrich each discipline’s theoretical discourses,and enhance people’s cognitions and imaginings of social economic life.