竟陵派文学的发端及其早期文学思想趋向

钟惺、谭元春早年在家乡的文学活动,是竟陵派研究者较少关注的一个论题.本文通过钟、谭诗文之始习、才性之养成及其相互磨合,在家乡重要的文学交游活动以及早期创作成果与经验总结等方面的考察,试图对此作比较具体而全面的描述,并且在一种历时性视角的观照下,探究他们在这一阶段所形成的文学立场、文学思想及趋向与以后各阶段文学观念与主张的内在联系,证实这一阶段对于竟陵派文学定型、发展的重要性.这种阶段性的分析研究,是将对一个文学流派有关诗学理论、创作风格等问题的探讨还原到历史过程中去的一种尝试.

The Early Events and Thoughts of Jingling School

The literary activities of Zhong Xing and Tan Yuanchun during their early years in hometown, have till now received rather little attention from the researches in Jingling School. This paper attempts to present a general picture of those events through a comprehensive review, including Zhong's and Tan's literary practices, personal cultivation, interactions with each other, social activities in the literary circles back in their hometown, and their early writings and experiences. It also explores diachronically the relations between their literary standpoints and trends of thought at this stage and their literary concepts and propositions afterwards, which prove to be of significant importance to the making and development of Jingling School. In this way, the paper tries to put the poetic criticism of a literary school back into its background.