试探刘向《列女传》对题材的拓展

Extending in the Theme of Women Made in the Book Biography of Women

《列女传》是西汉著名学者刘向创作的一部全以女性作为传主的女性类传,全书记载了上古至汉代约百余名知名女性的事迹。作为我国传记文学史上第一部妇女类传,《列女传》不仅对后代史书设妇女类传产生了深远的影响,而且在女性描写方面积累了初步的艺术经验,为后世文学女性形象的塑造提供了不少可资借鉴的优良传统。

Biography of Women is a famous biography written by the renowned scholar Liu Xiang lived in Western Han Dynasty in China . The book is taken not only as a literature biography of women living in ancient China , which has influenced the development of literature of women＇ s matter of subject , but it provided us the experiences in the creation the women figures in literature.