妙笔文心,雅俗共鉴——试论明末清初通俗小说的文人品性

Comment on Literator Tendency of Popular Novels during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasty

小说在古代被视为“小道”,其文坛边缘地位决定了它的世俗化色彩。明末清初,大批文人介入通俗小说的创作领域,以他们的文心、文笔对小说这一通俗文类进行了艺术打造,使其深层结构和表层结构均有了“雅化”的趋向,并具有了独特的文人品性。这一变化,强化了通俗小说创作中的现实感和个性色彩,并对清代文人小说的发展产生了较大的影响。

Novels were considered as “bypass literature” in ancient China. They were provided with common custurns for their margin status in literary world. During Late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, many literators invoved in this field, they rebuilded the art quality of novels with their literary idea and writing style, which made them more elegant and possessing special literator tendency in both deep and surface layer. These changes intensified the master status for those popular writer and affected the novels in Qing Dynasty greatly.