民间审美情趣支配下的死亡叙事——以《三国演义》和《水浒传》为例

The Death Narration under the Control of Folkloric Aesthetic Sentiment——Taking "The Romance of Three Kingdoms" and "Outlaws of the Marsh" for Instances

在形成于元明之交这一历史断裂期的市民文化消费语境中,以《三国演义》和《水浒传》为代表的中国近世通俗文学,在具体操作死亡叙事的过程中,受到了"以奇为美"和"以惨为乐"这两种典型的民间审美情趣的深刻影响。在某种程度上讲,这两种带有原始的民间气息的审美情趣已经内化为通俗小说家常规性的文本叙事策略。民间审美情趣的强烈渗入,正是《三国演义》和《水浒传》文本世界中的死亡叙事在美学品格方面区别于"文人独创型"文本中的死亡叙事的根本原因。

In the context of citizen＇ s culture consumption formed at the turn of Ming dynasty and Qing Dynasty, in the process of narrating death, ＂The Romance of Three Kingdoms＂ and ＂Outlaws of the Marsh＂ which represented as Chinese popular literature were influenced by the aesthetic attitude of uniqueness and cruelty which were the two typical folkloric aesthetic sentiments. To a certain degree, those two which were embodied with the primitive essence of folklore internalized to be the popular fiction writer＇ s u- sual narrating strategy. Due to such infiltration of folkloric aesthetic sentiment, the beauty of narrating death in those two novels dif- fers from the invented beauty of narrating death by other popular fiction writers.