重析早期历史传奇中女性形象的近代内涵

A reanalysis of the Neoteric implication of female images in ancient romances

在宋元说话中,原是儿女故事与英雄传奇并重的。早期的章回小说首先突出了对历史的浓厚兴趣,这时,重建历史秩序的英雄事业成为叙述的重心,而"家庭"与"色"这一纯粹的个体欲望,便被视为英雄实现建功立业这一社会欲望的障碍,成为备受冷落又无法摆脱的情节——它实际成为一种潜在因素,而支配着历史传奇的整体结构。当小说完全摆脱了对帝王将相的描写,当英雄走向神魔化、走入家庭闺阁的市井风情时,这一潜在因素便逐渐走向了前台。从历史传奇到神魔到世情,女性形象逐渐由湮没到喧哗,但个中的否定内涵却是一脉相传的。

Equal importance has been attached to love stories and hero romances in Song-Yuan Colloquial Stories. The writers of the Zhanghui novel took great interest in history. At that time, the key point of the narration was to rebuild the history order to fulfill the heroic cause. So the human appetite for family and erotic things, which was regarded as a barrier for the hero to achieve social success, became a plot that was a latent factor to dominate the entire structure of the historical romance, when the novel was completely free of the description of the Monarch and the General, and when the heroes became apotheoses and were involved in the vivid human life, this latent factor gradually became the leading one. From the historical romance to the Evil-spirit novels, and then the novel about human relationships, the female image gradually emerged. But the negative connotation was the same.