中国现代文学经典的诞生与延传

Classics in Modern Chinese Literature: Recognition and Lasting

本文在对经典的含义进行界定的基础上 ,系统考察了中国现代文学经典诞生及延传的历史进程。经典既是实在本体又是关系本体 ,是那些能产生持久影响的伟大作品 ,它具有原创性、典范性和历史穿透性 ,包含着巨大的阐释空间。意识形态、精神价值以及知识、审美诸系统的变化与整合促成了中国现代文学经典的诞生 ;革命化与审美化、民族化与现代化、大众化与精英化三对关系是中国现代文学经典延传的不同路向 ;而新时期对于中国现代文学经典的重读与反思 ,则展现了现代文学经典在延传中变异和重构的发展趋势。

Based on the definition of “classics,' I try to discuss the process by which classics are recognized and spread in modern Chinese literature. Classics that have far reaching influences are at once a substance and a relation. Being original and lasting, they set up standards and provide a huge room for interpretation. The classics in modern Chinese literature were born in ideological, ethical, aesthetical and knowledge changes and integration. They have always shifted along the continuums between revolution and aesthetic tastes, localization and modernization, and the popular and the elite. Reflections upon and reinterpretation of modern classics in the reform era revealed the trends of redefinition and reconstruction of modern classics with time.