理想化与妖魔化——论宋玉的女性形象描写艺术及其在中国文学史上的影响

Idealization and Monsterization: On Song Yu' s Descriptive Arts of Female Image and His Influence in the History of Chinese Literature

宋玉是中国文学史上第一位全方位地描写女性形象的作家,是中国美女文学和丑妇文学的全方位开创者和代表作家。从形象学(imagologie)的角度来看,作为男性作家的宋玉在对"他者"(others)--女性的描写方面存在理想化与妖魔化的两极化倾向。他塑造的高唐神女和东家之子是十全十美的丽人和美神,他描写的登徒子之妻则是集天下奇丑于一身的丑妇。中国后代作家描写美女与丑妇都深受宋玉的影响与沾溉。

Song Yu was the first writer in the history of Chinese literature to panoramically depict the female image . He was also the pioneer and the representative writer of Chinese literature of writing the beauty and the ugly. From the perspective of imagologie, Song Yu, as a male writer, went to extremes, i.e. idealization and monsteriza-tion, when he depicted 'others' , namely the female. The goddess of Gaotang and the girl of eastern neighborhood he depicted were the perfect beauty and the goddess, while Dengtuzi s wife was described as the extremely ugly woman in the world. Song Yu' s descriptive arts of female image have influenced the writers of the later generations.