神话及其演变与早期文学小说

Myth and Evolution of Literary Novel

神话的思维模式及题材内容,对文学小说萌芽与发展意义重大。神话由原生状态走向系统化的过程折射着文学小说萌芽的发展过程,这主要表现在两个方面:首先,神话的历史化使史传作品带有神异怪诞特征,早期文学小说依附于史传,借鉴史传中神话的生存经验而发端成长;其次,早期文学小说吸收借鉴神话由片段走向系统的发展成果,亦注重情节的完整,逻辑的恰合,为小说的文体独立积累经验。

Mythological mode of thinking and subject matter are of great significance to the emergence and development of literary fiction.The process of the myth from the primitive state to the systematization reflects the germination process of the literary novel.This is mainly manifested in two aspects:First of a ll,the history of mythology makes history works with miraculous grotesque features.The early literary novels are dependent on historical biography and draw lessons from the survival experience of myth in historical biography.Secondly,the early literary novels draw lessons from the development of myth,also pay attention to the integrity of the plot and the lo gic,and accumulate experience for the style of the novel independently.