英雄也问出处——《贝奥武普》与《东海黄公》比较研究

Are Heroes also Origin-bound A Comparative Study on Beowulf and Old Man of Eastern Sea

《贝奥武普》是英国中世纪的民族史诗,而《东海黄公》堪称为中国戏曲的发端。两部作品的文学体裁形式不同,叙事对象也不同,一个是英雄宏大叙事,另一个从英雄叙事流变为滑稽形象讽喻叙事。通过对故事情节、叙事主题、原型意象、创作语言和创作动机等方面的跨文化对位比较,可以揭示出中西方共有的一些文学叙事功能和历史文化价值。

Beowulf is a national epic in the Middle Ages, while Old Man of Eastern Sea Huang Gong is claimed to be the waterhead of Chinese opera. Widely different in literary genres, one is making a grand narrative as a hero epic, while the other evolves from a hero narrative into an allegorical narrative. Based upon heroic narrative, with a comparative literature approach to a series of parallel comparisons in terms of plots, narrative themes, archetypal images, genesis language and narrative motivation etc, some shared narrative functions as well as historical and cultural values of these two works would be unveiled.