论中国文学史抒情和叙事两大传统

中国文学史存在一条抒情传统,从古至今已得到较充分的阐论,且为海内外大多数研究者所认同.但中国文学史也存在着一条与之相对应的源远流长、内涵丰富的叙事传统,而且这两条传统乃是共生互补、相扶相益的关系,这一点似乎尚未引起足够重视,论证得也不充分.这对全面深入理解中国文学史的面貌、特征和本质,无疑非常不利.因此亟需建立文学史研究的叙事视角,并以此为贯穿线重审全部中国文学史.一种研究视角的建立必有其客观实在的条件,决非随心所欲所能奏功;而一个有价值的视角一旦建立,却能够反哺研究工作,使之打开新局面.试以叙事视角和叙事贯穿线观察中国文学史,就不但会收到扩大文学史资料库和研究范围之效,而且会对古老的中国文学本身获得许多新认识,从而使整个中国文学史研究前进一步.当然,对于文学史贯穿线,应该从多种视角去思考和作出概括,多种视角可以并存共荣,叙事视角也只是其中一个而已.

On Lyricism and Narrative Traditions of Chinese Literary History

It has been fully discussed and widely agreed that there is a lyricism tradition in Chinese literary history. However,there is also another narrative tradition in literary history. And these two traditions are interacted and complementary. Since seldom attention is paid to the narrative tradition,it is urge to build the narrative perspective of literary history study and then reexamine the whole Chinese literary history. The paper argues that by narrative perspective,the study of literary history may not on...