文学经典本是内涵和外延相对稳定的一个指称,但在消费社会和后现代意识及外来理论的冲击下,文学界对它的态度和理解已十分多样。我们应通过对以往被认可的文学经典的最高构成要素进行总结,找到文学经典最内在的一致性。历史性、审美性和超越性是文学经典的最高品格,缺乏历史深度、精神审美和超越情怀,正是文学经典所不屑和拒绝的低劣形态。这对于当下的文学状况具有丰富而深远的启示。 The literary classics was a reference to the relatively stable connotation and extension. However, under the impact of the consumer society, postmodernism and foreign theory, the literary world has a very diverse attitude and understanding of it. We should find out the innermost consistency of literary classics by summing up the highest elements of literary canons that have been recognized in the past. Historical, aesthetic and transcendence are the highest qualities of literary classics. The lack of historical depth, spiritual aesthetic and transcendence feelings is precisely the inferior form dismissed and rejected by literary classics. This has rich and far-reaching enlightenment on the current literary situation.