詩心與故事——林庚《中國文學史》論小説和戲劇

Stories in a Poetic Mind: Ling Geng’s Interpretation of Fiction and Drama in His Chinese Literary History

Authors

  • 陳國球 (CHAN K. K Leonard) 香港科技大學人文學部

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24112/sinohumanitas.112441

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.

林庚是二十世紀三十年代一位出色的詩人,也是一位著名的古典文學研究者;兩重身份互相交叠影響,因而創作和研究别具特色。林庚的古代文學研究具體表現在先後出版的幾種《中國文學史》之上。其中第一本《中國文學史》寫成於1974年,更是迥拔孤秀,見解和書寫方式與一般著作大不相同。本文把焦點放在“小説”和“戲劇”之上,試圖探討這位詩人如何談論“詩”以外的文類。我們發現林庚在研究中國文學史上的小説和戲劇時,非常用心追尋内裏的“詩情”和“夢意”,以中國方式詮解中國叙事體的理想結構。對於近似西方劇情的中國故事,反而輕輕帶過,無意深究。這種處理方式,與林庚一貫主張“中國文學史事實上是一個以詩歌爲中心的文學史”之説是互相呼應的。依照林庚的看法,中國文學史在宋以前的重心離不開詩歌;即使宋元以後轉入“故事主潮”——小説戲劇當道,林庚還是偵察到其中許多的“詩意”。無論過去的哪一時段,“詩”仍然是理解中國文學史的主要綫索。

Lin Geng (1910-) is one of the famous poets in the thirties of the twentieth century. He is also a renowned scholar in the field of classical Chinese literature. Both his roles as a creative writer and a researcher interact with each other to bring about works of uniqueness. In fifty years of time (1947-1995) he has produced several versions of Chinese Literary History, of which the first (1947) is most distinctive in terms of its literary interpretations and writing style. This article focuses on Lin Geng's exposition of the “stories” or narrative genres, i.e. fiction and drama, in his first Chinese Literary History. It is discovered that Li Geng, with his poetic sensitivity, is able to detect the “dreaminess” or “poeticality” in some major works of fiction and drama. In his view, this “dreaminess" or “poeticality" signifies the ideal structure of Chinese narratives. Thus, on top of the common conviction that poetry is the predominant literary genre before Song Dynasty, Lin Geng presents to us a proposition that poetry or poeticality is the most important characteristics throughout the path of Chinese literary history.

Published

2005-08-01

How to Cite

陳 國. (2005). 詩心與故事——林庚《中國文學史》論小説和戲劇: Stories in a Poetic Mind: Ling Geng’s Interpretation of Fiction and Drama in His Chinese Literary History. 人文中國學報, 11, 397–418. https://doi.org/10.24112/sinohumanitas.112441

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Section

論文