笔者认为,无论“智慧文学”还是“说教文学”都不是一种文类,完全放弃使用“智慧文学”术语是不可取的。
The present author suggested that neither wisdom literature nor didactic literature is literary genre. The term wisdom literature should be retained, but we should define it differently.
因为那时的美国儿童文学大多还是说教式,目标受众为某个虚幻的读者——某个理想化的男孩或女孩,假定情境是他或她在看完故事后会立刻把里面的主角奉为榜样。
American children's literature in those days was mostly didactic, addressed to some imaginary reader—an ideal girl or boy, upon reading the story, would immediately adopt its heroes as role models.
但决不能把儿童文学的教育性推到极致,否则,儿童文学就会堕入公式化概念化的说教泥坑。
But the educability of the children literature must not be promoted to an extreme, otherwise children literature will sink in the mud of conceptualization and formulism.
The Lady is at the dogmatic heart of this relentlessly didactic work of literature.
这个夫人就是文学教条主义,不懈的说教工作的核心。
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