清代词学正变论

Zheng Bian View of Poetics in the Qing Dynasty

正变论是词学的一个重要命题,滥觞于两宋,明代正式明确提出,词体正变的讨论在清代十分热烈。正变的内涵颇有差异:有以婉丽为正,有以清雅为正,亦有以风雅为正;对待正变的态度亦有不同,有崇正抑变者,有只分正变而不分高下者。清代词论家对正变认识的变化与清代词学流派的更替相对应。正变论不仅涉及词体风格形态、创作的价值评判,而且关乎词学的走向,是清代词学具有普遍意义的论题。

As an important proposition of poetics,Zheng Bian View of poetics emerged in the Song Dynasty,was formally put forward in the Ming Dynasty,and aroused the heated discussions in the Qing Dynasty.The connotations of Zheng Bian differ greatly.Some take gracefulness,fineness or elegance as Zheng.The scholars' attitudes towards Zheng Bian differ as well:some advocate Zheng while restrain Bian and some rank them as equal in status.The critics of poetics in the Qing Dynasty changed their views on Zheng Bian,which corresponded to the succession of the schools of poetics at that time.Zheng Bian view is not only involved in styles and forms of Ci,and judgment of compositional value,but also concerned with the orientation of poetics,thus was a universal proposition in poetics of the Qing Dynasty.