乡土情节的颠覆与重构——以古代小说中归乡母题为中心

Subversion and Reconstruction of the Nostalgic Complex in Classical Chinese Fictions

在中国诗歌史上,歌咏望乡、思乡、归乡的作品蔚为大观。出于传统深厚的乡土情结和旅途中的坎坷际遇,诗人们在写作时将故乡与归乡之旅过分地理想化。相比之下,古代的小说家们虽然对乡土情怀保持相当的尊重,实际上却通过旅行者的各种遭遇展示了归乡之旅的复杂性。本文试图通过对古代小说中的归乡故事的梳理,反思归乡母题在中国文化传统中的含义,并对小说研究与思想史研究相结合的可能性与方法论加以探索。

In the history of Chinese literature,poets wrote numerous home-related works with the feature of over-idealizing the home-returning trip because of a strong nostalgic complex plus an arduous home-returning trip.In contrast,Chinese novelists in ancient times described the complexity of the home-returning trip with various adventures though they still had a fairly strong nostalgic complex.This paper focuses on the home-returning stories in classical Chinese fictions,reveals the cultural implications of 'home-returning' in the traditional Chinese context,and explores the possibility and methodology of interdisciplinary studies on classical Chinese fictions.