论清代文言小说的通俗化

The Popularization of the Qing Dynasty Classical Chinese Novel

文言小说源远流长,从魏晋时发端至五四运动时期白话小说的提倡,其间经历了千余年的发展历程。在文言小说发轫初期,它简约典雅,堪称是"雅"文学的代表。但是,随着社会经济的发展和市民阶层的兴起,至清代,文言小说的阅读群体已由少数贵族扩大到了多数市民。这样,文言小说从构思到创作都发生了适合于市民口味的变化,这种变化反映了文学的消费性,说明文学创作是为读者服务的。

The classical Chinese novel has experienced a long history from Wei and Jin era to the＂ May 4th movement＂ time when the colloquial novel was advocated. In the initial stages, the classical Chinese novel was contracted and elegance, which was regarded as representation of ＂elegance literature＂. But with the development of social economy and civic society in the Qing dynasty, the readership of the classical Chinese novel has changed from minority elite to majority citizens. Thus the conceiving and production of the classical Chinese novel has been adapted to citizens＇tastes. And this change reflected the character of consumer of literature. It also showed that the goal of literature was for the sake of the masses.