比较文学“危机说”辨

比较文学的"危机说"、"死亡说"应详加辨析。学科的先天不足和内在逻辑悖谬是使比较文学学科意识中道失落的内在原因,而近30年来的理论转向、文化研究热和解构主义大潮是使比较文学学科产生"危机"乃至"死亡"的外在原因。从总体来说,比较文学尽管存在危机,但并没有死亡,反而获得了进一步的发展。中国比较文学应加强学科基本理论建设,争取成为比较文学第三阶段的"代表"。

Reflections on the Crisis of Comparative Literature as a Discipline

This paper discusses so called "crisis" and "death" of comparative literature as a discipline,arguing that the congenital deficiency and internal illogicality are the root causes that make comparative literature lose the disciplinary consciousness in its growth.The theoretical turn,great emergence of cultural studies and the flooding of deconstructive torrent within the past 30 years are the external causes that lead the discipline into "crisis" and "death".Despite its crises time and again,comparative literature is not dying,but growing rapidly.The paper suggests that by effectively constructing its disciplinary theory,can Chinese comparative literature possibly strive to be the representative of the discipline in its third stage after French and American schools.