源远流长的中国古代文论无疑是我国传统文化中的精华 ,是我们不可舍弃的宝贵理论遗产 ,是中国文学理论的根基 ,但是却有学者认为建设新世纪文论“无法以中国古代文论为本根”。① 古代文论能否作为根基、能否融入当代文论话语体系之所以成为问题 ,原因在于 2 0世纪发生了文学理 The long history of Chinese ancient literary theory is undoubtedly the quintessence of our traditional culture and the precious theoretical heritage that we can not give up. It is the foundation of Chinese literary theory. However, some scholars think that the construction of literary theory in the new century can not be based on ancient Chinese literary theory root". ① Whether the ancient literary theory can serve as the foundation and whether it can integrate into the discourse system of contemporary literary theory becomes a problem because literary theory happened in the 20th century