理论话语与美国学界  

Theories and the American Academy

作　　者：王炎[1] 

机构地区：[1]北京外国语大学外国文学研究所,北京100089

出　　处：《外国文学》2011年第1期104-110,159,共7页Foreign Literature

摘　　要：回溯美国批评界接受文学理论的路径,虽然时间晚于欧洲,但后现代批评理论一度如日中天。经过几十年的理论洗礼,后现代对美国文学究竟意味着什么?它给美国学界带来了怎样的变化?近十年美国理论界的微妙变化,是否预示着整个"后"理论的前景?它对中国学界反思"后学"有何借鉴?本文梳理美国文学界引进、"消化"理论的历史脉络,借此揭示后现代理论盛行的真正原因。Postmodern theory in the American Academy has transformed the object of studies in the humanities. In particular, in English departments, theories have challenged the predominance of the governing categories of literary studies by making visible the ideological processes in canonizing 'great works'. But these recent changes in the American academy have been very partial in the sense that much of the 'traditional' modes of literary studies have remained untouched, or have only made some slight 'accommodations' to them. Furthermore, postmodern theory has accommodated itself to existing practices by producing new modes of fetishization of cultural artifacts. As a result, Postmodern theory is criticized and contested as an emergent institutional form which preserves conservative modes of subjectivity.

关 键 词：美国文学批评 后现代理论 人文传统 资本全球化 

分 类 号：I0[文学—文学理论]