大政治时代的伦理焦虑——辛亥革命前后“伦理小说”与“革命加恋爱”小说的突起

辛亥革命在发动时期为激发民族热情已然鼓动起一个向中华民族本位文化认同的热潮。民国政体建成后,当政者为聚敛人心,又开始援用传统文化资源完成对社会意识形态的重构。如此便难免导致现代化的政体与其植根的文化传统的逆结状态。这种大政治时代的伦理焦虑反映到文学中,便是伦理小说和革命加恋爱小说形态的出现,这类小说凸显了此一时段的都市通俗文学在消闲与教化的价值立场之间,在审美品格、伦理倾向及其负载的启蒙或革命意涵之间试图保持微妙平衡的努力、焦虑及尴尬。

Literature: Anxiety in Regard to Ethics at the Time of the Revolution of 1911

After the establishment of the Republic of China in 1911,in order to win the hearts of the people,the government appealed to traditional culture for the reconstruction of social ideology,encouraging them to identify themselves with the Chinese nation.Such a policy,however,resulted in a kind of incompatibility of modern constitution and the time-honored tradition;hence an anxiety was manifested in regard to ethics.In literature,for example,ethic novels and revolution plus love novels came to the scene,showin...