章培恒先生以文学史家成为公众瞩目的“焦点人物” ,是近八年间的事 ,此前几十年他以兼擅考证和阐释而进行的文学史个案研究实际上早已为中外学术界所关注 ,而且正是随着这种对文学史上重要个案研究的不断拓展和积累 ,才使他萌生了重新建构中国文学史的愿望 ,并进而在写史的过 Mr. Zhang Peiheng became the “focal point” of the public with the literary historian. It is a matter of nearly eight years. Only a few decades ago, he studied the case history of literary history with the merits of textual research and interpretation, which has long been of concern to Chinese and foreign academic circles. It is with this continuous expansion and accumulation of the study of important cases in the history of literature that it inspired him to embark on the desire to reconstruct the history of Chinese literature,