文学史作为目前大学文学系的核心基础课程,其重要性毋庸置疑。如陈平原所说:“对于今日中国的大学生来说,‘文学史’既是一门必修课,也是一种不证自明的知识体系;而对于大学教授来说,撰写一部完整的可以作为教材的‘文学史’,更是毕生的追求”~(1)。不过,正因为有教育体制的制度性保障,因此,无论是从事教学与写作的“大学教授”们,还是接受文学知识教育的“大学生”们,很少有人去追问文学史作为大学文学教育的中心形式是如何历史地形成的,在体制化的过程中经历了怎样曲折的建构与发展路径。特别是,自20世纪90年代后期以来,在强调“大学改革”的新历史情势下,文学史受到不同程度的反思和质询, Literature history as the core of the current university literature course, its importance is beyond doubt. As Chen Pingyuan said: “For today’s Chinese college students, ’literary history’ is both a compulsory and self-evident knowledge system; and for university professors, writing a complete book can be used as Textbook ’literary history’, but also the pursuit of life ”~ (1). However, precisely because of the institutional protection of the educational system, few people question the history of literature, whether they are “university professors” who teach and write or “college students” who receive literary knowledge education How the central form of university literature education was historically formed and how the tortuous path of construction and development has gone through in the process of institutionalization. In particular, since the late 1990s, with the emphasis on the new historical situation of “university reform,” the literary history has been subjected to various degrees of reflection and questioning.