市民尚奇心理与明代白话短篇小说题材的选择

Citizen Psychology of Fancy and Theme Choice in Ming Dynasty Colloquialism Short Novels

随着市民欣赏水平的提高和对自身、社会关注的加强,明代白话短篇小说在题材上逐渐脱离了谈鬼说怪和历史、传说题材之奇,开始从日常生活中选取新奇的题材,如选择小事酿大事、高出常人之举、变不可能为可能、做不合通常情理之事、阴差阳错、骗局、公案、复仇、意外奇遇等题材,使作品呈现出平常中见奇异的效果,为作品增加了奇异色彩,满足了读者求新尚奇的审美趣味,也形成了明代白话短篇小说题材选用上的一个鲜明特色。

With the improvement of citizens＇ appreciation, and also with the enhancement of social attention, themes in Ming Dynasty colloquialism short novels have gradually broken away talking about ghosts, histories and legends, and have begun to choose fancy themes, such as bagatelle leading to great invent, tower above the action of ordinary person, changing impossibility to possibility, doing unreasonable things, a strange combination of circumstances, a put. up job, legal case, revenge, un expectable adventure and so on, which leads the effect of fantasy out of mediocrity, so that they increase the fantasy color for the works, meet the tastes of readers, seeking new and fancy, in the meantime form a brilliant characteristic of choosing themes in Ming Dynasty colloquialism short novel.