历史 现实 方法——欧洲浪漫主义思潮论

国内学术界一般将浪漫主义和现实主义理解为两种创作方法。其实,从"浪漫主义"这个概念及其理论形成的历史看并非如此简单,它是流行于18世纪末19世纪初欧洲诸国波澜壮阔的综合性文化思潮。"浪漫"这个核心概念透露出其来源、背景以及演变:来源于欧洲中世纪的诗体或散文体虚构故事——罗曼司(Romance);反映出作为"想象的共同体"(Imagined Communities)的民族与国家及其重要的构成要素——区域共同语的兴起;浪漫派理论家对于浪漫主义文艺的辩护衍生出后来所谓浪漫主义文学创作方法的观念。

History,Realism and Methodology in European Romanticism

Romanticism,together with realism,has generally been recognized as creative methods in domestic academic circles.However,historically speaking,the formation of this concept was much more complex.It was a comprehensive cultural and ideological trend,popular in Europe at the turn of the 19th century."Romantic",as the core concept,reveals its source,background and evolution.Deep-rooted in the fiction in the Middle Ages termed as "Romance",it reflected the rise of nation-countries included in the "Imagined Comm...