论唐代鬼魂题材小说的审美特征

唐代鬼魂题材小说摆脱了唐前同类作品以述异、纪实为内核的史传笔法,在唐代诗歌创作审美意境追求的影响下,其审美意境较唐前鬼魂题材小说有了突破性的拓展,其审美特征有了质的新变和高层次提升。通过冥界与人世的交融互摄,创造出鬼魂幻化虚构之地与人间生活图景的虚实结合之美;在故事主题创作、人物思想倾向、作品价值取向及语言艺术层面做到了高雅之美与通俗之美的结合,达到了雅俗共赏的审美境界;在景色环境描写与人物情感表现等方面,实现了绮丽之景与人伦之情的统一,营造出情景交融的诗意之美。这一系列创新性的审美特征,使作为唐代小说组成部分的鬼魂题材小说,脱离了唐前同类作品令人恐怖的低浅层次,进入使读者获得审美愉悦的高品位,具有了独特的审美价值。

A Haunting Ghost and His Haunted Literary World

As one of the most tragic figures in the history of American literature, Edgar Allan Poe created the themes of morbid love, omnipresent death, transient beauty, decadence and horror. Death always accompanies him in his poems and stories. His interest is mainly in the people’s mind where he created a fancy and horrible world.