中国当代的“文学经典”问题

确立“文学经典”是建构文学体系和选择文学话语方式的必然途径.二十世纪后半叶,当代中国针对“文学经典”问题有过多次论争,并屡次尝试以全新的标准确立新的“文学经典”体系.主要表现为一方面通过“古为今用”重评古代“文学经典”,一方面通过“洋为中用”评价外国文学经典,在此基础上,进一步推动当代文学“新经典”的建构.这种政治实用主义视野下的“文学经典”体系建构,对当代中国文学和文论的发展产生了极大的影响.

Chinese Contemporary Issue of Literary Classics

We want to establish that the inevitable way of constructing literary system and choosing the way of narrating literature is by defining literary classics. In 1950s - 1990s, there were a multitude of controverses on literary classics in contemporary China. Besides, there were plentiful attempts wanting to establish new literary classics in a brand new standard. They embodied on revaluation of ancient Literary Classics with the principle of ＂making the past serve the present＂, on the other hand, appraisement foreign literary classics by the way of ＂making foreign things serve China＂, on the basis of which further promote the construction of new classics of contemporary literature. This construction of Literary Classics system under the view of political pragmatism exert enormous effect on the development of contemporary Chinese literature and the theory of literature.