一、命题的提出 重提这一难啃的命题,与其说向世人求解,倒不如坦白地承认在向我自己质询。像许多求学者一样,我多的是疑惑,少的是答案。 然而,无论如何,这是文学无法回避的挑战:正面明确自身终极意义。事实上,我们的文学理论之所以让人不屑一顾,我们的文学批评之所以如同青楼女子,其根源不可能不追至这一基本命题的模糊。也正因为这一关涉重 First, the Proposition Proposed to reiterate this difficult to gnawing the proposition, not to be resolved to the world, it is better to confess to confess to myself. Like many begging scholars, I am more puzzled, less is the answer. In any case, however, this is an unavoidable challenge to literature: a positive identification of its ultimate meaning. In fact, the reason why our literary theory is dismissed and the reason why our literary criticism is like a brothel woman is that its roots can not be chased by the vagueness of this basic proposition. Precisely because of this concern