论屈原作品的崇高之美——兼论朗基努斯的崇高观

On the sublime of Qu Yuan's works——On Longinus' view of sublime

屈原是中国古代伟大的文学家和爱国者,他的富有特色的楚辞体文学作品成为中国文学的另一个源头,对中国文学具有深远的影响。无独有偶,在西方有一位对西方文学具有重大影响的文艺家朗基努斯几乎和屈原生活与同一时期,他创作的文学理论作品《论崇高》,描述了伟大作品必备的五大特点。对照两者的作品和理论就会发现两者有惊人的相似之处,朗基努斯对崇高的描述竟然与屈原作品不谋而合。屈原的作品正是朗基努斯笔下崇高的典范。

Qu Yuan was a great writer and patriot in ancient China, whose distinctive literary style of The Songs of Chu became another source of Chinese literature, which has far - reaching impact on the development of Chinese lit-erature. Coincidentally, there lived in the West a great literary theorist named Longinus, who nearly lived in the same time as Qu Yuan. Longinus＇ great literary work On the Sublime, describes the five essential characteristics of great works. Making a comparison of the two writers,it is found that the striking nus＇ description of the characteristics of noble works agrees well with Qu amples according to Longinus＇ theory. similarities between them, that is, Longi- Yuan＇ s. Qu Yuan＇ s works are good ex-amples according to Longinus＇ theory.