后现代语境下文学理论知识生产的三个维度

后现代语境,既是一种看待问题方式的转变,又是与现代性语境的一种新的关系.后现代语境下文学理论的知识生产,有赖于三个维度的彰显: 首先,事实与价值的统一.文学的事实是文学理论作为一门知识得以建立和展开自身的前提和保障,而价值评判和价值追求,则体现文学理论的创造品格和人文气象.两者的结合是文学理论知识形态的基本规定;其次,实证与思辨的统一.实证与思辨的统一根源于作为研究方法的实证与思辨应用于文学理论知识生产过程中各自的优长与局限,实践需要将两者结合起来;第三,揭示本质,慎谈规?关键是要对本质采取一种科学的符合对象自性的方式,而不是将本质凝固化、主义化.文学理论还要破除对发现规律的执迷,还文学研究以地方性的、语境化了的知识叙述.

Three Dimensions of the Generation of Literary Theoretical Knowledge in the Post-modern Context

The post-modern context is both a methodological shift of viewing the world and a new relationship with the modern context. There are three dimensions of the post-modern context in which the knowledge of literary theories are generated. Firstly, fact and value are in unity. Literary facts are preconditions and guarantees with which literary theories as knowledge can be established and spread, but value evaluation and value pursuit embody the creativity and humaneness in literary theories. The combination of the two is essential to the generation of the knowledge of literary theories. Secondly, demonstration and speculation are in unity, which results from the need of putting the two together, for they are, as research methods, complementary in the process of the generation of the knowledge of literary theories. Thirdly, what is important is not to discover rules but to reveal essence of literature. Essence should be approached in a way that is not essentialist but scientific and appropriate to the object being studied . Literary theory should get rid of the infatuation with discovering rules, but try to produce knowledge that is local and contextualized.