政论文学一百年--试论政论文学为新文学之起源

政论作为一种文体,自先秦时代开始即是中国文学的重要组成部分,在其存在于中国文学史的漫长时段内,这种文体始终在传统文章学的范畴内演进,变化不大.到了晚清时代,世变激急,排议杂兴,社会对直接明快、透辟淋漓的说理论事文章的需求日益高涨,传统文章学的资源不敷应用,有识之士起而多方寻求变革,由此带来一个从龚自珍开始迄于陈独秀的前后大约一百年的政论文学大变革的时代.这一以政论文体为突破口、多方吸纳异域文学资源的中国传统文学的内部变革过程,在极大程度上动摇了"旧文学"的根基,直接导致了五四文学革命的发生.

A Century of Political Writings--A Tentative Analysis of Political Writings As the Origin of New Literature

As a literary style, political writings have been an important component part of Chinese literature ever since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of Warring States. During its long history, this literary style has been developing within the framework of traditional writings with little change. In the late Qing Dynasty, there occurred drastic social changes and social opinions. As a result, society had an ever-increasing need for direct and penetrating argumentative writings, but the traditional writings could not meet the needs. Therefore, far-sighted scholars began to go in quest of reforms, thus leading to a period of great changes in political writings. From Gong Zi-zhen to Chen Du-xiu, this period lasted for about 100 years. The process of the internal reforms in traditional Chinese literature, which took political writings as a breakthrough while absorbing foreign literary resources, greatly shook the foundation of "old literature" and directly resulted in the outbreak of the May 4th Literary Revolution.