作为继鲁迅之后中国现代写实主义文学的杰出小说家与文艺评论家,茅盾在他六十余年的文学生涯里,贡献出了《林家铺子》、《子夜》、《腐蚀》等现代小说经典和一大批文艺评论著作,这是为我国广大读者所熟知的,但对他作为我国较早运用西方神话理论从事神话研究的学者,对他为我国神话研究所做的前瞻性、开拓性工作与重大贡献,恐怕就知之不详了。其实,要界定一个人是不是某方面的学者,他的研究工作是否具有意义,主要应当看他对研究对象的把握程度,特别是其见解的创造性和系统性,用这样的标准去衡量茅盾,称他 As an outstanding novelist and critic of modern Chinese realistic literature after Lu Xun, Mao Dun contributed more than 60 classic literary genres such as “Lin Jia Pu Zi”, “Midnight” and “Corrosion” in his more than sixty years of literary career. A large number of literary and art criticism writings are well known to readers in our country. However, as a scholar who conducted mythological research earlier in our country by using Western mythology theory, he is forward-looking, pioneering and important in his study of mythology Contribution, I am afraid I know unknown. In fact, to define whether a person is a scholar of a certain field or not, whether his research work is of significance should mainly be based on his grasp of the research object, especially the creativeness and systematization of his opinion. By using such criteria, Mao Dun, Call him