宋元话本小说娱乐功能探析

An Analysis on the Entertainment Function of the Song Dynasty's Story-telling Literature

宋元时期的话本小说受民间说唱艺术影响而衍生,面对市民阶层这一广大的接受主体,偏离了以"雅正"为旨归的诗文创作传统,演绎古今故事、市井生活。无论在题材内容方面,还是在艺术表现手法方面,都注重作品的娱乐性,力求浅显通俗,涉笔成趣,也促成了白话小说娱乐功能的进一步大众化,成为各个阶层尤其是民众所喜爱的文学样式,从而成为展现白话小说娱乐功能的重要载体。

The Song Dynasty＇s story-telling literature emerged from folk arts consisting mainly of talking and singing. Faced with the large accepters of citizen class, it was far away from the writing tradition of poetries and prose with ＂righteous＂ as tenet,told the ancient and modern stories and common life. It stressed on the works＇ entertainment in respect to both contents and artistic styles, pursued for plainness and community and interestingness,which also made the entertainment function of colloquial fictions become popular more,and made the colloquial fictions become a literary form loved by all classes especially common people,thereby they had been a important carrier for showing the entertainment function of colloquial fictions.