《山海经》与《伊利亚特》——中西战争神话叙事比较

Records of Mountain and Sea and Ilias ——Narration Comparison Between Chinese and Western War Mythology

《山海经》和《伊利亚特》是中西战争神话中富有代表性的作品 ,从两者的比较中可以看出 ,由于文化传统、人文精神、地理环境等的巨大差异 ,中西战争神话在叙事规模、叙事文体、形象构成等方面都形成巨大的反差 ,但在故事的叙事功能上却存在惊人的相似。又由于历史传承的路径不同 ,《伊利亚特》式的原始叙事模式对欧洲中世纪以后战争小说的影响不如《山海经》

Records of Mountain and Sea and Ilias are the typical works in Chinese and Western war mythology. After comparing these two works it can make out that because of the huge difference between civilization tradition, humanity spirit and geographical circumstance, huge contrast had formed in Chinese and Western mythology about the scope and style of narrate in writing, and image form etc; but they are also astonishing resemble in the narrative function . And because of the different ways to follow history, the influence of the original narrating model of the Ilias type on Europe war novel after Middle Ages are not equal to that of the Chinese mythology taking Records of Mountain and Sea as representative on the narrating model of Chinese war novel of later years.