“梁祝”母题的起源、传播及文艺样式考论

The Study of the Origin,Spread and Literary Artistic Appreciation of the Motifs of Butterfly Lovers

在梁祝传说的形成、流传与变异、演化过程中,已经形成了许多核心的、稳定的"母题",诸如女扮男装、爱情受阻、殉情化蝶……这些故事情节在目前通行的各种版本的梁祝文本和表演形式中,大都存在着。从母题学的角度对"梁祝"文艺展开考察和分析,一方面可以研究"梁祝"在生成、演化和变异的过程中,容纳、形成了哪些作为最小的叙事单元、持续存在的"母题";另一方面能够探讨"梁祝"本身作为一个艺术和文化娱乐样式的"母题",如何穿越时空和文艺样式的壁垒,最终形成洋洋大观的梁祝文化的历史过程。在这两条路径的研究中,我们能够梳理出"梁祝"经典化的历史路径。

Many stable core motifs have been formed in the process of formation, circulation and evolution of Butterfly Lovers,such as female disguising herself as a male, troublesome romance, double suicide and transformation into butterflies, and so on. These plots mostly exist in the various current versions of Butterfly Lovers both in texts and performances. To investigate and analyze Butterfly Lovers can research those smallest narrative units and persistent motifs contained or formed in the process of formation,circulation and evolution of Butterfly Lovers on the one hand. On the other hand,it can research the historical process of how Butterfly Lovers ,as a motifs of artistic cultural entertainment pattern,breaks through the barriers of space time and artistic form to become the grandiose culture of Butterfly Lovers. By taking these two paths of study, we can comb out the historical process of the ethic canonization of Butterfly Lovers.