外国文学研究 ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (5): 39-47.

• 中外学者对话“世界文学” • 上一篇    下一篇

作为问题导向的世界文学概念

王宁   

  • 出版日期:2018-10-25 发布日期:2022-05-24
  • 作者简介:王宁,教育部长江学者特聘教授,上海交通大学人文社会科学资深教授,欧洲科学院外籍院士,主要从事比较文学与世界文学、西方文论和文化研究。
  • 基金资助:
    国家社会科学基金重大项目“马克思主义与世界文学研究”(14ZDB082)

World Literature as an Issue-driven Concept

Wang Ning   

  • Online:2018-10-25 Published:2022-05-24
  • About author:Wang Ning is Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai 200240, China) and Changjiang Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Tsinghua University (Beijing 100084, China). He was elected to Academia Europeae in 2013. His major research areas include comparative and world literature, Western literary theory and Cultural Studies. Email: wangn22@sjtu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    “Marxism and World Literature Studies”(14DB082) sponsored by National Social Science Fund of China

内容摘要: “世界文学”这一概念自歌德于1827年正式提出并加以阐发以来,已经历了一百九十多年的曲折历史。正如美国学者莫雷蒂所言,这一概念不能只是文学,还应该范围更广大些,也即它应该能引发人们围绕这个问题展开讨论甚至争论。实际上,世界文学正是作为这样一个问题导向的理论概念,至少向学界提出了这样几个不断引发人们讨论甚至争论的话题:文学经典的建构与重构;文学史的写作;世界文学的评价标准等等。此外,世界文学也可以作为文学研究的一种方法,起到简单地聚焦民族/国别文学所起不到的作用。总之,作为中国的比较文学和世界文学学者,我们还有另一个独特的任务,也即借助于世界文学这一开放的概念,从中国的立场和视角出发重新审视世界文学的既有地图,为世界文学的重新绘图注入中国的元素并提供中国的解决方案。

关键词: 世界文学, 文学史, 文学经典, 问题导向, 中国文学

Abstract: The concept of world literature, formally put forward and interpreted by Goethe in 1827, has undergone, during the past 190 years or more, a zigzag experience. As American scholar Moretti puts, this concept should not be limited within the domain of literature, but rather, it should be “larger”. That is, it should stimulate scholars to carry out discussion and even debate on this topic. Actually, world literature as an issue-driven concept has put forward disputable issues such as, literary canon formation and reformation, literary historiography, and the standard for evaluating world literature. World literature studies could also be used as a method playing an irreplaceable function in our literary studies. As Chinese scholars of comparative and world literature studies, we should re-examine the established mapping of world literature from a Chinese perspective and, in an effort to bring in Chinese elements, offer our proposal for the remapping of world literature.

Key words: world literature, literary history, literary canon, issue-driven, Chinese literature

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