“称名也小,取类也大”——从《文心雕龙·比兴》看“意象”概念的形成

"Concise Image Always Expresses a Rich Connotation"——Understanding the formation of the image concept from "The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons"

"意象"概念是中国古代诗学核心概念之一,是由刘勰在《文心雕龙》中首次提出的。刘勰身处南朝,当时诗学思想对他影响颇多,而他本身又有着独立的诗学体系,在这一体系中,"意象"概念的提出必然显现出自身的表现层次,而不该是突兀地提出,对于这一层次的诗学逻辑,需要做深入的探寻。

＂Image＂ concept is one of the core concepts in ancient Chinese poetics, and it was first proposed by Liu Xie in ＂The Literary Mind and the Carving of＂ Dragons＂. Liu Xie was in Nan dynasty and he was also deeply influenced by the thought of Chinese poetics. On the other hand, he had his own independent poetics system. In this system the proposal of ＂image＂ concept should show its own expression level other than being proposed abruptly. It is very necessary to probe into this level＇ s poetic logic