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文艺理论研究 ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (2): 76-84.

• 古代文论与古代文学的理论研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

古代小说学中“传奇”之内涵和指称辨析

王庆华   

  1. 华东师范大学中文系
  • 出版日期:2014-04-25 发布日期:2014-06-09
  • 作者简介:王庆华,华东师范大学中文系副教授,文学博士,主要研究方向为中国古代小说、小说学和传统叙事文类及叙事学。
  • 基金资助:

    本文为教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金项目“话本小说书写类型研究”(11YJC751078)的阶段性成果。

The Connotation and Referent of Chuanqi in the Study of Fiction in the Ancient China

Wang Qinghua   

  1. Chinese Department at East China Normal University
  • Online:2014-04-25 Published:2014-06-09
  • About author:Wang Qinghua, Ph.D., is an associate professor in Chinese Department at East China Normal University with main research interest in ancient Chinese novels, the study of novels, traditional Chinese narrative genres and narratology.

摘要: 通过对古代小说学中“传奇”的内涵和指称对象深入考辨,重点指出在古代小说学的话语系统中,“传奇”一词并非主要从文体角度命名的文体概念,而是从内容性质角度命名的题材类型概念,从文体角度指称传奇小说时,多称之为“传记”;“传奇”以“专书一事始末”的单篇形式为基本单位,并以此区别于“比类为书”的笔记小说集;在古代正统观念中,与笔记小说相比,“传奇”的地位和价值仅属于“独秀的旁支”;传奇小说创作的自觉虚构意识并非始于唐人传奇,而出现于明代。

关键词: 传奇, 内涵, 指称, 地位, 自觉虚构

Abstract: Through a critical examination of the connotation and referent of the term chunaqi (legendary story, literally, "transmission of the strange") in the study of fiction in the ancient China, the paper points out that the term chuanqi in the ancient critical discourse was not a concept of genre but a concept of content and thematic type. When chuanqi is referred to as a genre, it was often called as a then homophonic term zhuanji (biographical record), while chuanqi referred to "a book-length account of an event from the beginning to the end." This term of chunaqi referred to a literary text in the form of a book, which differed from literary sketches in the form of a collection or an anthology. In the orthodox concept, chuanqi was, compared with literary sketches, only "a subsidiary of literary creation," less significant in literary status and value, and the self-consciousness of fictional nature in writing chuanqi stories did not start in the Tang Dynasty but in the Ming Dynasty.

Key words: chuanqi (legendary story), connotation, referent, status, conscious fiction