徐文长机智人物故事与传说的转换——以AT1577B盲人挨打型为例

The Transformation of Xu Wenchang's Witty Character Stories and Legends:Taking AT1577B Blind Man Beaten as an Example

有关徐文长的散文叙事文本可以区分为徐文长机智人物故事与徐文长传说,二者甚至存在难以完全割裂的中间形态。徐文长机智人物故事有“稳定与隐匿”的情节基干、“组合与流动”的母题链、“断裂与变换”的情节单元,而徐文长传说的结构形态特点主要体现在三个方面:服务于核心名词的稳定情节基干,作用于主体叙事的离散情节单元和服从地方特定功能的叙事。特定情节与名词性元素的脱落、增加和代换,使得作为狭义故事的徐文长机智人物故事和徐文长传说之间发生持续而缓慢的转换。

Xu Wenchang's prose narrative texts can be classified into Wenchang's witty character stories and Xu Wenchang's legends,and there even exists the intermediate forms that are difficult to completely separate.Stories of Xu Wenchang's witty characters have a"stable and hidden"plot backbone,a"combination and flow"motif chain,and a"fractured and transformed"plot unit;while the morphological characteristics of the structure of Xu Wenchang's legends are mainly reflected in the stable plot backbone serving the core noun,the discrete plot units acting on the main narrative,and the narrative obeying the specific function of the place.The shedding,addition and substitution of specific plots and noun elements allow for a continuous and slow transformation between the stories of Xu Wenchang's witty characters and the legends of his in the narrow sense.