论《一千零一夜》的嵌套结构形式

The Nested Structural Form of The Arabian Nights

与模仿说对位,形式美学倾向于追求镜像论之外的审美效果,于是文学想象,甚至幻想成为重要指向。与此同时,形式在与内容并举的二分法中占有独特意义,尤其自现代主义以来,形式成为形式美学的首要向度。而《一千零一夜》作为民间传说的集大成者,自然而然地游走于模仿和反模仿之间,其蕴涵的形式美为现代文学的形式审美提供了丰腴的土壤。文章以框架结构和嵌套结构的所来所往为例,探讨《一千零一夜》的审美形式,试图在纷纷攘攘的主义和显学之外找回一点文学研究理当持守的常规或常识。

In contrast to the theory of imitation,formal aesthetics tends to pursue the aesthetic effect beyond the theory of mirror image,so literary imagination and even fantasy become an important point.At the same time,form has a prominent significance in the dichotomy of form and content,and it has become the primary dimension of formal aesthetics especially from the modernism.As an epitome of folklore,The Arabian Nights wanders between imitation and anti-imitation.Its formal beauty provides rich soil for the formal aesthetics of modern literature.Taking the origin and development of the frame structure and the nested narrative structure as an example,this paper attempts to make a tentative analysis of the aesthetic form of The Arabian Nights,trying to emphasize some conventions or common senses that literary research should cleave to besides various schools and theories.