文学向来被看作是社会生活的反映 ,小说也因而常常被视为“社会风俗史”或“用美学方式写成的历史”。近些年来 ,小说批评的视野 ,渐渐投向文化层面 ,一片新的理论天地开始展现在我们面前。陈洪《浅俗之下的厚重小说·宗教·文化》(南开大学出版社 ,2 0 0 1年 4月出版 ,以下简 Literature has always been regarded as a reflection of social life, and novels are often regarded as “history of social customs” or “aesthetics written history.” In recent years, the field of criticism of fiction has gradually shifted to the cultural level, and a new theoretical world has begun to show before us. Chen Hong’s “Thick, Fiction, Religion and Culture” (Nankai University Press, published in April 2001, the following Jane