文化批评在文学研究中的定位

文学是用语言表达的艺术,也反映文化精神和日常生活,因此文化批评与文学批评在批评对象上相交,而文化批评在文化精神和日常生活维度展开,文学批评在审美维度展开。文学批评包含若干方法子类,其中母题研究和原型批评既属文学批评也属文化批评。以文化研究为背景的文学批评,在比较文学“、五四”新文学、历史小说、女性主义和后现代主义文学等研究领域更有阐释时空。文化批评在文学研究中的恰当应用,是由作品的文化内涵决定的。

Orientation of Cultural Criticism in Study of Literature

Cultural criticism is undergoing mainly at the first three dimensions presently.Literature is an art expressed through language,representing cultural spirit and daily life.Cultural criticism will meet with literary criticism when literature is chosen as a criticized object under cultural criticism.The coverage of cultural criticism is at the dimensions of cultural spirit and daily life,while that of literary criticism at its aesthetic dimension.Literary criticism itself contains some subsets of critical methods.Motif study and prototype criticism belong to both literary criticism and cultural criticism.Literary criticism in a background of cultural study may have a larger room of explanation in such studies as comparative literature,the new literature of 'the May 4th movement',historical stories,feminist literature,post-modernist literature and so on.A suitable application of cultural criticism in literature study is determined by the cultural content of literary works.