冯梦龙《情史类略》底层妇女形象群浅析

Analysis of the Image Group of Bottom Women in Feng Menglong's A Brief History of Love

冯梦龙《情史类略》中的底层妇女以人物形象群及编者点评的方式,在宏大叙事的史学传统和正统文学叙事中的才子佳人与神仙鬼怪自荐模式之外,自成叙事风格。类型上可细分为贞烈型、情感美感的贤妻型、勇于追求情爱型。在人物形象特征上,突破底层劳动妇女形象作为“勤劳”“奉献”“母性”等美德化身的宏大叙事,呈现为“情感”“自我”“才智”等多层次的丰富存在。其形象群的形成,深受晚明社会思潮与社会结构变动的影响,是晚明文人浪漫思潮在民间文学中的反映,也是商业出版高度发展的必然。

The characteristics of the bottom women in Feng Menglong's A Brief History of Love formed his own narrative style in the way of character group and editor's comments,which were different from the historical tradition of grand narrative and the self-recommended mode of genius-beauty,immortals and ghosts.In terms of types,it can be subdivided into chastity type,virtuous wife type,and brave pursuiter of love type.Breaking through the grand narrative of the working women images at the bottom as the embodiment of“diligence”,“dedication”,“motherhood”and other virtues,the image group of bottom women presented multi-level rich existence of“emotion”,“self”and“intelligence”.The formation of its image group was deeply influenced by the social ideological trend and the change of social structure in the late Ming Dynasty.It was the reflection of the romantic ideological trend of the literati in the late Ming Dynasty in folk literature,and it was also the inevitable development of commercial publishing.