走进"后文学时代"——一个历史结构主义者给21世纪文学所作的注解

Approaching"the Era of Post-literature"--A Historical Structuralism's Demonstration of Literature in the 21th Century

在文艺理论和文学史的长期"铸造"下,社会显然已经形成了某种关于文学的"传统意识"。在许多人看来,文学作为一种人类的文化现象,肯定会长期存在下去;我们久已形成关于文学的一套理论认知和价值体系,也会长期存在下去。粗粗看去,这似乎是毫无疑问的。然而自从20世纪90年代以来,人们却发现:我们已有的理论判断和价值标准,在社会的文学现实面前经常处于"失语"状态。这是文学时代变化造成的。由于文学在数字技术和知识经济时代里有了不同既往的表现,由于这是一个新的"后文学时代",因此,我们以往的关于文学的理论看法和文学史观正在失去意义。

Under the long-term 'funding'of literary and artistic theory and history of literature, it is obvious that some 'traditional consciousness'about literature as a human cultural phenomenon, literature will certainly continue to exist for a long period of time; we have long formed a system of theoretical cognition and value on literature which will also continue to exist for a long period of time. On the rough view, it is seemingly undoubted. Ever since the 1990s, however, people have found that; the theoretical judgment and standard of value we have owned are often in the state of'inarticulateness'in the face of the social literary reality.It brings about the times changes of literature . Because literature owns some expression different from the past in the era of digital technology and intellectual economy, and also deprives from the new'era of postliterature'. Therefore, our former theoretical opinion on literature and historical view of literature are losing their significance.