中国网络玄幻小说的神话学探究

An Approach to China's Online Fantasy Novel by Mythology

中国网络玄幻小说与中西神话有着千丝万缕的渊源关系,在原型、神话色彩、生命意识以及叙事模式上受到中西神话原型及原型背后的故事的影响。网络玄幻小说将其中可以利用的原型故事拿来为己所用,对其进行重述和演绎,使古老的神话在信息时代全面复活。这种现代化的复活,不仅展现着传统文化绵长悠久的生命力,而且体现着当代中国网络玄幻小说对传统文化的承继与传播。

China＇s online fantasy novels are associated with Chinese and western myth origin. In the prototype, mythology, life consciousness and narrative mode, those novels are largely influenced by Chinese and western myth prototype and the story behind the prototype. The network fantasy novel authors take out the prototype story from Chinese and western myth stories and try to reproduce, restate and make a new deduction, bringing back a new life for those stories. The modernization of the reproduction, not only shows the vitality of traditional culture of long his- tory, but also shows that the contemporary China＇s online fantasy novels have a good inherit and transmission of the traditional cultures.