近几十年来,英美大学里文学理论的锣鼓不绝于耳。60年代末,英国一些年轻左翼人士在重实践批评的传统里觉察到资产阶级人本主义的反动性,他们要以理论为武器一扫密布英文系的阴霾。那是风云激荡的日子,“幸福啊,活在那黎明之中,年轻人更是如进天堂!”(华兹华斯诗句)一直到80年代末,有的理论家(如克里斯多弗·诺里斯)依然在追查抵制理论者的家谱,发现他们的祖宗曾有 In recent decades, the Anglo-American university literature theory percussion. In the late 1960s, some young British left-wing people, aware of the reactionary nature of bourgeois humanism in the tradition of criticizing practice, wanted to use theory as a weapon to sweep away the gloom in the English Department. It was a stormy day, “Happiness, living in the midst of the dawn, the young man even more into heaven!” (Wordsworth’s poem) Until the late 80s, and some theorists (such as Chris Dover Norris) is still tracing the pedigree of boycotting theorists and finding out that their ancestors had