中国“新时期”初出现的“意识流小说”与西方现代主义文学有直接的渊源关系,这使得采用在当时占主流地位的社会学思路,以政治话语去为其进行合法性辩护遇到很大困难。因此,为“意识流小说”出场进行的辩护最终转换成了作家、批评家、理论家共同参与的学术建构活动。尽管最初参与论争的人政治诉求与学术诉求常常相互纠结,学术话语的使用同时也是为政治立场辩护的策略性选择,但随着论争的展开,后来的学者更多地被学术话题本身吸引。这是“新时期”文学批评用学术话语置换政治话语的一次重要尝试,对当代文学研究者学术意识的回归与学术身份的确立都有重要贡献。 The “Stream of Consciousness Novels” that appeared at the beginning of “New Period” in China have a direct relationship with the Western modernism literature, which leads to adopting the sociological ideas that were dominant at that time to legitimize them with political discourse Defense has great difficulty. Therefore, the defense of appearance for “Stream of Consciousness Novel” finally transforms into the academic construction activities that writers, critics and theorists participate in. Although the political and academic appeals of the original participants often entangled with each other, the use of academic discourse was also a strategic choice to defend the political stance. However, as the controversy unfold, scholars later become more attracted to academic topics themselves. This is an important attempt of literary criticism to replace political discourse with academic discourse in the “New Period”, and it has an important contribution to the return of academic awareness and the establishment of academic identity of contemporary literature researchers.