传统经学与现代神话研究

Chinese Classic Hermeneutics and Mythology

中国现代神话学是在引进西方学理与继承本土学统的过程中建立起来的。根据“中国神话历史化”的假说 ,现代学者抛弃了今文家的“语境化”研究方法 ,延续了古文家的“文本间”研究方法。中国现代神话学关于“中国神话历史化”的理论命题和“文本间”的研究方法 ,一方面证明了西方理论的普遍有效 ,在中国与世界之间建立起材料的同一性关系与文化间的不平等关系 ;而另一方面也使本土材料由此丧失了参与修葺普遍性理论的机会 ,并且以无语境“纯文体”的建构掩盖了其真正的当代学术语境。

Modern mythology in China appeared as an interaction between western theory of myth and native tradition of Chinese learning. According to the hypothesis of “historization of myth”, Chinese scholars favored the “contextualization method” instead of the “intertext method” to study Chinese primitive myth. This met the universality of western theory, but it manifested a disequilibrim of power structure between Chinese and western culture. The native materials of Chinese primitive myth, thus,lost a chance to correct the universality of mythical theory.