明清小说家的经世怀抱与小说文本形态

The Practical Attitude of the Novelists in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Form of Novel Text

在经世思潮浸染下,一批明清小说家将具有经世价值的"副文本"附于小说,借以强化小说主旨。他们还通过带有自况意味的人物形象来传达自己的经世方略,由此导致小说中出现大量审美意味淡薄的非情节成分。晚清一些"新小说"作者则将小说视为启发民智、改良社会的工具,他们或在小说中穿插各类富于时代色彩的章程条规,或借小说人物对时局发表评论,使其小说呈现出明显的非情节化倾向,从而大大消解了小说的审美特质。

Iafluenced by statecraft ideological trend, some novelists in Ming and Qing Dynasties would have the practical value of the vice text attached to the novels. By this means, they could strengthen the novel theme. They also expressed their own social govern- ance methods by self-color characters. Therefore, there was a large number of texts without aesthetic meaning in the novel. In the late Qing Dynasty, some ＂new novels＂ were regarded as the tool of enlightening society. In the novel, they interspersed all kinds of articles linking with the times. Moreover, they made political commentary through the characters of the novel. All of this made the plot and artistry indifferent.