论话本小说的美学特征

About the Aesthetic Characteristic of Story-tellers' Scripts

话本小说与唐传奇比较,具有语言浅显通俗、内容常中出奇、人物市井小民的美学特征。语言浅显通俗,主要表现为语言口语化,这与话本的表演性、受众的市民化、作者的平民化密切相关;内容常中出奇,旨在从平凡生活中提炼出奇异动人的故事情节,且多用"巧合法"编撰故事,这与市民受众的审美趣味及故事题材的来源不无关系;人物市井小民突破描写历史英雄的传统套路,使小说摆脱了记史的束缚,提高了人物塑造的艺术水平。话本小说以其俗、奇、新的美学特征丰富了小说的艺术宝库,影响深远。

Compared with the legend of the Tang Dynasty,the story ty are characterized by their plain language, unusual content and wor quial language is closely related to its common writers and audience dly the tellers scripts of the Song Dynascharacters in aesthetics. The colloextraordinary content stems from the common people＇s aesthetic taste;and the description of heroes goes beyond the previous traditional patterns. The aesthetic characteristics of popularity,strangeness and originality enrich the expression in the novel,which has a profound influence on the later literature.