从洪水神话看比较神话学的研究方法和发展前景——陈建宪教授访谈录

The Research Methods and Development Prospects of Comparative Mythology from Deluge Story:An Interview with Professor Chen Jianxian

陈建宪教授现任华中师范大学文学院博士生导师,湖北民间文艺家协会副主席、中国神话学会副会长。主要从事比较神话学研究,著有《神祇与英雄——中国古代神话的母题》等著作多种。神话学研究在国际上已有很长历史,现在愈来愈成为一门独立的学科,很多学派都将自己的研究方法运用到神话解读上,针对神话本身特点也产生过一些专门方法,如母题分析方法。这些方法和学派虽然在国际神话学界十分通行,但在中国,知道和应用的人却很少。洪水神话流传范围最广、时间很长,受到了来自历史学、考古学、语言学、心理学等很多学科的关注,陈老师以洪水神话为例,对神话的跨学科研究进行了探讨。

Chen Jianxian , professor of School of Chinese Language and Literature at Central China Normal University, supervisor of Ph. D Candidates, vice president of the non-material cultural heritage research center, mainly engaged in the study of Comparative myth. Now he is the vice chairman of the China Institute of myth, his works as follows, Gods and Heroes-the Antitype of the Ancient Chinese Myth and Interpretation of Myths-the Exploration of Motif Analysis Method, and The Research of China＇ s Deluge Story Circle-an Analysis on 568 Versions, translated books of The Dictionary of Symbol of Chinese Culture and World Folklore and Comparative Study of Western Narrative Literature and The Encyclopedia of Worm Mythology. Mythology research has a long history, which has already gradually developed into an independent discipline. Many schools will have their own research methods used in the interpretation of myth, the special methods have been caused on the own characteristics of the myth, such as the motif analysis, these methods and schools is prevailing in the inter- national myth academic circles, but in China, very few people know and apply that. The spreading of Flood myth is so long, which scope is the widest, the concerning and impacting from the history, archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and so on many subjects. Prof. Chen take Flood myth for example,to analyze the interdis- ciplinary research of myths.