唐小说中的人身异物化缘由探究

ON THE TANG STORIES OF HUMAN-ANIMAL TRANSFORMATION

唐五代小说中的人身异物化故事一度颇为丰盛,但后渐衰微。其原因之一可能在作者对异物化故事进行"合理化"文学性描述时,形成了不一致的进路。通过对"人化虎"故事的完整梳理,可见无实质理由变身外,存在外在的因果报应论和内在的心因性两类阐释,其中的矛盾与混乱对异物化故事模式之后的式微或许至关重要。

The Tang Stories of human-animal transformation are once of abundance, but later it lost its significance. One of the reasons of its decline in influence may lie in its incoherence of explaining the causes of the transformation. By conducting a complete analysis of the stories regarding how a person becomes a tiger, we can see that an outward perspective of and an inward viewpoint of the changes in human mind, as well as some occasions with unattributed reasons. These incoherent ways of comprehending the transformation constitute a paradox or even chaos, thus may contribute to the dissipation of the population of such kind of legends.