“物欲”叙事:中国古代小说研究的新视角

The "Goods Desire" Narration:A New Vision of the Research of the Ancient Chinese Novels

在社会科学各学科研究中,经济研究与文学研究经常互相推动。经济学著作的煽情性与修辞技术,乃至结构框架常常来自文学及文学研究,而文学研究也从经济研究那里获得了很多模式化和规律性的启示。在文学创作实践中,现实社会中的"食货"等物欲世态常常与小说文本的叙事形态达成一种同构共谋关系,发生结构层面的置换。因此,在中国古代小说研究中,我们应当冲破以往"经济基础决定上层建筑"这一强势观念的束缚,不再一味地沿着"反映论"定律下的背景研究或投影研究的老路走下去,而应当别开生面地探讨小说叙述形态与社会物欲世态的同构关系,全面探讨以"食货"为重心的"物欲化"叙事形态及其结构意义。

In the social sciences research, economic studies and literary studies often promote each other. The impassioned rhetoric and structural frameworks in economic works are often borrowed from literary studies, while the latter receive patterns and principles from the former. In the practice of literary writing, there is a homologous relationship between the “food and goods” desire and the narrative structure of novel, generating the replacement in structure. Therefore, in the study of ancient Chinese novels, we should break the powerful preconception that the economic base determines the superstructure, no longer blindly following the “theory of reflection”of the background research or the old path of projection. The homologous relationship needs to be explored, and a comprehensive summation of the “food and goods” narration and its structural significance should be presented.