张恨水《春明外史》小说类型化研究

A Genre Analysis of Zhang Henshui's Novel An Unofficial History of Chunming

张恨水通过历时近五年的长篇连载小说《春明外史》的撰写,把已有的社会小说类型和言情小说类型糅合到一起,在与读者阅读期待互动中,将言情故事和社会百态展示交相穿插,在创作中将真实人物、事件与虚构想象巧妙结合,使社会言情小说发展成为一种成熟的小说类型模式,极大程度地得到读者的热烈追捧,引领了19世纪20年代社会言情小说创作风潮。

Zhang Henshui ever wrote a long series of novels named An Unofficial History of Chun ming for nearly five years, in which he blended existing types of social novel with the genre of romantic novel. At the same time, he created those romance novels under the real social background in the progress of interaction with readers＇ expectation. Moreover, Zhang made a unique combination of the elements in- cluding real characters, events and fictitious imagination. Consequently, this kind of creation directly gen- erated the great transformation of social romance novels into a relatively mature stylized pattern, which has been enthusiastically appreciated by the reader and aroused the creation wave of social romance novels in the 1920s.