作为文学研究和文学教育的一个科目,文学史的存在似乎是无可置疑的了:大学中文系的学生必须修习文学史课程,一些有成就的作家希望被文学史家关注和叙述,似乎成了教育界和文坛的常情常理。因为习以为常,因为事关知识、饭碗、荣誉的大问题,目前已经很少有人会从根本上否定文学史的合理性。尽管人们对文学史研究的现状从来就不曾满 As a subject of literary studies and literary education, the existence of literary history seems beyond doubt: students of Chinese department of university must take courses in literary history, and some successful writers hope to be watched and narrated by literary historians, which seems to have become The common sense of education and literary world. Because it is commonplace, because of the big issues concerning knowledge, jobs and honor, very few people have basically denied the rationality of literary history. Although the status quo of the study of literary history has never been full