1当代文学批评显然存在诸多问题,但其基础问题依旧是萨义德曾经在《开端》里指出的,所谓“来自四面八方的无规则性”。这种无规则性源于当代写作和传统的关系变化,当代作者不再认为只存在唯一的一个前后相承绵延不绝的传统连续体,也不能想象自己只在某一个已经存在的谱系里写作,相反,每个当代作者都致力创造自己的传统和谱系。一条宽广的大河在某个时刻决堤,并漫延成无数细小的分叉,每条分叉都在努力 1 There are obviously many problems in contemporary literary criticism, but the underlying issue remains that what Edward Said once pointed out in “Beginning”, the so-called “irregularity from all sides”. This irregularity stems from the change of relationship between contemporary writing and tradition. Contemporary writers no longer think that there exists only one continuum that stretches out incessantly, and can not imagine himself writing only in one existing lineage Instead, each contemporary author is committed to creating his own traditions and pedigrees. A broad river breaks at some point and spreads into countless tiny bifurcations, each with its forks