1987年夏在美国召开的一次文学理论讨论会上,活跃于西方批评界的两大力量——马克思主义与分解主义展开了面对面的唇枪舌战。两军对峙,互不相让,最后以特里·伊格尔顿和弗雷德里克。詹姆森为首的马克思主义批评家稍占上风,文学批评“回归历史”的呼声又在西方文学理论批评界赢得了反响。其实,这种面对面的争论场面在西方文论界并不少见,当年韦勒克惊呼“比较文学的危机”时其势头也足以与之相比。倒是从那以后,我们就不断听到有人传来“分解主义巳过时”的信息。确实,自从1984年分解主义批评在美国最有代表性的人物保尔·德 At a literary theory symposium held in the United States in the summer of 1987, the two major forces active in the West’s critical circles, Marxism and Decomposition, launched a face-to-face war of words. The two armies confronted each other and finally gave them to Terry Eagleton and Frederick. Jameson led by Marxist critics slightly prevailed, literary criticism “return to history,” the voice of criticism in Western literary critics have won the response. In fact, this face-to-face controversy scene is not uncommon in Western literary circles, when Wellek exclaimed “the crisis of comparative literature” when its momentum is sufficient. It is not until then that we continue to hear the message that “Decomposition has become obsolete.” Indeed, since Decompositionism criticized Paul De in 1984 as the most representative figure in the United States