“文艺”如何“复兴”:“诗性”文本的没落与重建

The Decline and Reconstruction of “Poetic” Text in Chinese “Renaissance”

将中国的新文化运动类比为欧洲的'文艺复兴',目的在借助'语言'为突破口,通过'文言'向'白话'的'换形',为现代中国寻找到能够与之相对应的'言说/书写'的总体性'形式'。但基于汉语文学自身悠久的'抒情'传统,以'诗'为正统本位的'文体形制'已经无法'赋予'与'现代'的'叙事'世界相对应的'心灵形式'了。'白话新诗'的尝试既未能延续汉语文学的'诗'的传统,也未能成功地移植域外'现代诗'之召唤真理的特定功能,由此导致了汉语文学'诗性'的没落。而在另一方面,出于晚明小品文和欧洲絮语散文的启发,白话的'美文'反而为现代文学寻找到了一条可行的'赋形'路径,汉语文学自身的'诗性'传统也因此得以'再生'和'重建'。

To compare China’s New Cultural Movement to Europe’s Renaissance aims at finding a totalizing Chinese form of'speech/writing'that may be equivalent to the western counterpart,and the way to achieve it is to build on the transformation of language from classical Chinese to vernacular as a breakthrough.However,the long-established'lyrical'tradition in Chinese literature and the genre system which orthodoxizes poetry have no capacityto endow a spiritual form that can correspond to the narrative of the modern.The Vernacular Poetry fails to extend the tradition of poeticization in Chinese literature and to appropriate the specific truth-pursuing function in foreign modern poetry,which leads to the eventual decline of the poeticness of Chinese literature.On the other hand,the vernacular belles-lettres,inspired by the late Ming Dynasty essays and European essays,provides a feasible path to'con-formation'for modern literature,with whichthe'poetic'tradition of Chinese literature has been renewed and reconstructed.