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马歇尔·布朗是华盛顿大学比较文学系教授、《现代语言季刊》的主编。布朗出版了5部关于18、19世纪欧洲文学的专著,主编了《剑桥文学批评史》浪漫主义卷和《朗文世界文学文集》欧洲浪漫主义文学。2014年11月,本文作者受《外国文学研究》的委托,在华盛顿大学比较文学系访学期间以电子邮件的方式对布朗进行了采访。布朗教授首先就比较文学的历史与将来提出了自己的看法。他指出比较文学虽然在体制上陷入困境,但在学术上却充满活力。虽然比较文学面临着各种理论的冲击,但他担心的并不是比较文学的将来,而是比较文学与文学传统的割裂。关于如何处理传统和创新的关系,他指出:尊重传统并不是要回归传统或保留传统,而是要从中认识到我们的局限和不足;传统与创新并不是真正的二元对立,建构与拆除可能更能说明问题。
Marshall Brown is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington and editor of the Modern Language Quarterly. Brown has published five monographs on 18th and 19th centuries European literature, edited the romantic volume “History of Cambridge Literary Criticism” and European Romanticism in the Longman Collection of World Literature. In November 2014, the author was commissioned by Foreign Literary Studies to interview Brown on an e-mail basis during a visit to the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. Professor Brown first put forward his own views on the history and future of comparative literature. He pointed out that though comparative literature is systematically in trouble, it is academically dynamic. Although comparative literature is challenged by various theories, he is not concerned with the future of comparative literature, but rather with the fragmentation of the traditional literary and literary traditions. On how to deal with the relationship between tradition and innovation, he pointed out: Respecting tradition does not mean returning to tradition or preserving tradition, but rather recognizing our limitations and shortcomings. Tradition and innovation are not real dualistic opposition. Construction and demolition may be Better explain the problem.