长期以来，现代文学史料研究相对薄弱。突出表现是:第一，文献匮乏，史实舛误;第二，重新再版的现代文学作品，不向读者作任何说明，任意修改原作的现象严重;第三，不是依据史料进行客观、辩证的历史评价，学术是非有时只依靠学术以外的力量进行裁决。作者把这一现象概括为文学生成研究中脆弱的软肋。《发现与阐释——现代文学史料知见录》，是以专题论文的形式对上述问题进行的学术探索。现代文学史料研究是一个开放和发展的系统。发现与阐释密不可分。发现既包括对已有史料的再阅读;又含纳对研究较少甚至长期被遮蔽史料的深入研思、再发现。本书所设的栏目，如报刊研究与版本考释、作家书信日记研究、钩沉·重读·质疑等，都是作者开拓的研究新空间。发现是研究的基础，阐释是史料价值的呈现。只有阐释，才能够开掘出史料背后的精神，打开文献潜在的历史内容。发现史料与阐释史料的有机结合，研究才真正能够做到“回到原初”和充分发挥研究者主体性的统一，使研究品质得到整体上的提升。史料研究怎样和现实生活紧密结合，让研究变得鲜活生动，有血有肉，是作者向往的学术目标之一。作家访谈与学人掠影两个部分讨论的人物，他们既是史料研究家，又是现代文学史料研究内容的一个组成部分。走近他们，向他们发问、请教，谛听他们有关研究得失的娓娓而谈，获得的不仅仅是史料新的“发现”，同时也可能带来“阐释”的新视野、新角度。本书和作者写的《中国现代文学史料学》(上海中西书局2013年版)是姊妹篇。不妨说，《发现与阐释》是史料的细部展示，史料学是史料研究的骨骼。

For a long time, the study of modern literary historical materials has been relatively weak. The outstanding manifestations are: first, lack of literature and historical facts; Second, the phenomenon of reprinting modern literary works without giving any explanation to the reader, arbitrarily modifying the original work is serious; Third, instead of making objective and dialectical historical evaluations based on historical data, academic right and wrong sometimes rely only on forces other than academia to make judgments. The author summarizes this phenomenon as a fragile weakness in literary generative research. "Discovery and Interpretation: A Record of Modern Literary Historical Sources" is an academic exploration of the above issues in the form of a monograph. The study of modern literary historical sources is an open and developed system. Discovery and interpretation are inextricably linked. Discovery includes both re-reading of existing historical sources; It also includes in-depth research and rediscovery of historical materials that have been poorly studied or even obscured for a long time. The columns set up in this book, such as newspaper research and edition interpretation, writer's letter diary research, hooking, rereading, questioning, etc., are all new research spaces opened up by the author. Discovery is the basis of research, and interpretation is the presentation of historical value. Only by interpretation can we unearth the spirit behind the historical materials and open up the potential historical content of the documents. Only by discovering the organic combination of historical materials and interpreting historical materials can research truly achieve "return to the original" and give full play to the unity of the subjectivity of researchers, so that the quality of research can be improved as a whole. How to closely integrate historical research with real life, so that research becomes vivid and vivid, flesh and blood, is one of the author's longing academic goals. The characters discussed in the two parts of the writer's interview and the scholar's glimpse are both historical researchers and an integral part of the research content of modern literary historical sources. Approaching them, asking them questions, asking them advice, and listening to their discussions about the gains and losses of research will not only gain new "discoveries" of historical materials, but also may bring new horizons and new angles of "interpretation". This book is a companion to the author's Historical Studies of Modern Chinese Literature (Shanghai Zhongxi Bookstore, 2013). It may be said that "Discovery and Interpretation" is a detailed display of historical materials, and historical materials are the skeleton of historical research.（AI翻译）