走向故事诗学

Story Poetics Perspective on Chinese Folk Tales Research in Modern Era

故事诗学是故事学研究的新方向。新中国民间故事研究七十年,积累了丰硕的学术成果。总体而言,多学科参与形成了方法论的多样性,促使故事研究跨学科发展,从中国文学领域拓展到了人文社会科学的广阔天地。从“求好运”故事(AT461)的研究历程和《中国民间故事》的编选案例出发,立足学科新时代背景,反思学科研究方法论,走向故事诗学将成为一种新的学术取向:一是民间故事研究需回归文艺美学方法,二是民间故事的文选原则应突出经典文本及其诗学价值,以期对民间故事研究有新的启示。另外,中国民间故事多在民间文学、通俗文学和作家文学“三位一体”的格局中发育成熟,进行诗学探索,有助于发掘其所蕴含的中华文明的优良基因。走向故事诗学,将为民间故事回归文学、回归大众特别是青少年的中华精神文化家园开创新的理论路径。

Story poetics is a new direction in the study of story.Since the foundation of The People's Republic of China,in the past 70 years,the study of folktales has accumulated abundant academic achievements.On the whole,multi-disciplinary research on the story has formed the diversity of methodology,promoted the interdisciplinary development of story study,and expanded the study from the Chinese literature to Humanities and social sciences.Based on the research process of“Seeking Good Luck”story type(AT461)and the cases in the compilation of Chinese Folktale,this paper takes the current times as the background of the discipline,and rethinks about the methodology.Moving towards the story poetics will become a new academic orientation for two reasons,firstly,folk story research needs to return to the aesthetic method of literature and art;secondly,the selection principle of folktales should highlight the classic text and its poetic value,so that it will bring new enlightenment on the study of folktale.In addition,Chinese folktales are mainly developed and matured in the trinity pattern of folk literature,popular literature and writers'literature.The exploration of study poetics will help to discover the fine genes of Chinese civilization in the stories.It will open up a new theoretical path for folktales to return to the tradition of Literature study and the public orientation,especially for the Youth to build their Chinese spiritual and cultural homeland.