魔幻浪漫主义的长篇游走叙事——《西游记》的艺术首创

A Travel Narrative of Magic Romanticism:on Artistically Original Creation of Journey to the West

采用神话学和社会历史分析的方法,对《西游记》的游走模式、神话思维、意象创造和魔幻系列的审美表现特点进行研究,提出了一个关于《西游记》研究从未涉及的问题——"魔幻浪漫主义的游走叙事"的命题。游走叙事是以取经人物的追求为情节动因,心性目标实现在寻找的中途,社会理想目标实现在终点,但过程中的妖魔阻难是叙事中心,也是塑造人物的重点所在。以自觉的神话思维的意象形象方式创造的小说,体现为变形思维,假定的因果律,交感巫术的致用,超凡能力的想象建构,实现的理想境界,带有与现实历史同构的寓言性质。

By using methods of mythology and social history analysis,the paper makes a study of the travel mode,myth thinking,image creation and aesthetic characteristics of Journey to the West. It puts forward a problem never discussed before——the theme of ' travel narrative of magic romanticism'. In the novel's travel narrative,the pursuit of people pushes forward the story,while demons' obstruction is the centre of narrative. The novel created by myth thinking usually embodies deformation thinking,assumed causality,imaginative construction of supreme power and realized ideal. In a word,such novel is a fable of the reality.