文学与经济关系的学理考量

文学与经济的关系研究不仅在建国以后长期被腐俗化、简单化了,而且在强调文学自律性、自主性的新时期几乎也被忽略。站在新的历史高度对此重新加以探讨,可望成为文学研究的一个新的增长点。当下的文学与经济关系研究,不仅应当在本文之外作家的经济生活状况对文学创作的掣肘和传播方式对版本真伪及文本内容的影响等文学创作的外部维度上加以拓展,而且应当在主人公的经济生活如何成为情节转换和推进的关捩等形式层面上加以深化。同时应当注意到,经济元素对文学的渗透,既可以导致文学成为经济的奴仆,也可以给文学创作更多的自由。在市场经济条件下文学日益走向大众化、审美日益走向功利化的今天,文学与经济的关系是文学研究者无法回避的现实课题。

Reflections on the Relationship between Literature and Economy

Since the founding of the People''s Republic of China, the study of the relationship between literature and economy has seen vulgarization and simplification, and even in the new period when literature emphases self discipline and self consciousness, this study has been largely ignored. A study of this relationship with a new historical perspective will help improve literary studies. The present study of the relationship between literature and economy should include not only the influence of the writer''s economic situation on his literary creation and the influence of transmitting means on different editions and contents of literary texts but also the influence of the writer''s economic situation on his plot construction and literary creation. It should be pointed out that the influence of economic factors can either make literature the slave of economy or provide more freedom to literary creation. Today when market economy is making literature more mass oriented and aesthetics more utilitarian, literary scholars should directly face the challenge of studying the relationship between literature and economy.