英文摘要 |
Since the emergence of the first Chinese Literary History by Lin Chuanjia, Dou Jingfan or Huang Jia in the late Qing dynasty, there have been more than one thousand modern Chinese Literary History published over the past hundred years or so. However, due to lack of knowledge on essentialism, epistemology, perspectives on literary history and methodology, many of these works plagiarized among one another, resulting in most of them being in poor quality. The two mainstream trends of ''perspectives on literary history'' among these are especially biased and absurd: one is deeply influenced by western biological and sociological ''evolution'' theories in pursuit of modernization and literary revolution, consequently ''evolutionary perspective on literary history'' becomes very popular. The other is dominated by dogmatic Marx-Leninism and political ideology, and promotes the rigid theoretical framework of ''materialistic perspective on literary history.'' These two perspectives are grafted from outside, therefore have no connection with the origin and development of ancient Chinese literature. Their interpretive validity has been questioned and criticized repeatedly since the ''literary theory'' boom in the 1990s. However, so far, the academic world only manages to deconstruct without being able to reconstruct. Asystematic and rigorous ''interpretive model'' for original ancient Chinese perspectives on literary history has yet to be established to form the theoretical basis for writing ''Chinese literary history.'' This paper, therefore, focuses on the original ancient Chinese ''normal and mutated perspectives on literary history.'' Through understanding, interpreting, analyzing, assembling relevant texts, it reveals and reorganizes hidden, scattered ideas, so as to ''reconstruct'' them into two systematic and rigorous ''interpretive models'' as standards for theories on ''literary history.'' They are ''circular movements from the normal to the mutated and back'' and ''changing with time and returning to the origin.'' These two interpretive models about the normal and the mutated perspectives on literary history can guide the writing of modern Chinese Literary History and also explain the transformation from the normal to the mutated and back for various genres over the ages. |