试论嵇康论说文艺术的继承与突破

Inheritance and Breakthroughs of Jikang's Techniques in Argumentative Essays

嵇康出身于儒学世家,年少时便有才名,在诗文、音律、玄学、养生等方面都有很深的造诣。就诗文而言,他更长于著论,其成就更多地显示在散文创作方面。嵇康的散文多以论说为主,立论新颖,对答式结构的灵活运用,使原本充满机锋的析理更加绵密精致,论辩更加通脱超俗,技巧繁复而魅力超群。我们由嵇康一些论说文的结构方式、论辩析理的技巧特色等入手,可以窥知其散文对传统论文的继承与突破。

Born in a family of literature, Jikang was already noteworthy for his artistic tastes in his youth. He achieved scholarly attainments in the fields of poetry and literature, musical melody, dark learning and health preservation. As regards to poetry and literature, he is an accomplished writer, with prose writing reflecting most of his achievements. Most of Jikangs writing are in the form of argumentation, with a fresh stand and a smart adoption of alternatively speaking-answering structure, which endows his prose writing with dexterous and delicate analysis, refined argumentation and complex techniques. From the structure and some techniques adopted in Jikangs argumentation, we are able to catch a glimpse of his inheritance and breakthroughs towards traditional argumentative essays.