消费文化、文人趣味与文体选择——以《海上花列传》为例分析

Consumption Culture,Taste of Literati and Style Selection——Take Biographies of Hai Shang Hua As an Example

从社会文化剧变和消费文化的多重视角看,《海上花列传》的文体选择极有代表性地体现了近代作家文体选择与表达的复杂性。《海上花列传》在文体上的选择变化是商业消费文化影响下自觉进行的文体新变行为,但这种新变又不自觉地受到作家的传统精英教育及其文人趣味的深刻影响,从而挑战和违逆大众的阅读经验,致使作品无法获得作者预期的市场认可。小说的这种文体选择行为使它虽见弃于普通读者,却能获得精英文人的认同,并让作者享盛誉于现今书写的各类文学史,这是韩邦庆的尴尬,也是近代大量优秀作家的悖论。

From the angle of consumption culture, The style selection of Biographies of Hai shang hua expressed the complexity of style trend by writers in relatively modern history. The paper argues that the style trend of novel is an initiative action which is greatly influenced by consumption culture. However, the writer＇s traditional elite education and taste of literati would unintentionally affect the style trend of novel at the same time, so as to take off and violate the customer＇s reading experience, which leads to poor market. The paper further states that although the style trend of novel has been discarded by general reader, it still won elite scholars＇ reorganizations. It makes the novel admired in many written history of Chinese literature in these latter days. This is Han bangqing＇s embarrassment, as well as elite writers from relatively modern history of China.