现代文艺理论视角下的冯梦龙小说理论研究

Abstract

As the famous novelist in Ming Dynasty, Feng Menglong not only compiled “San Yan”, the fiction that represents the highest achievement of story-tellers novel, but also put forward a series of principles for novel writing. The principles such as “Zhenyan”, “Shisu”, and “Qingjiao” raised by him, have very deep concept connotation on one hand, and constitute a integrated novel theory system in logic on the other hand. Especially, according to the view of the modern literature theory, Feng Menglong’s novel theory involves with some basic concepts in the literature creations, such as the artistic reality based on imaginary, the aesthetic effect based on popularity, and the educational function based on the unification of emotion and reason. In the Chinese literature development history, Feng’s theory made clear the nature of novel and distinguished the difference between novel as a literary form and the historical biography as well as the text for recording facts and amusement. It also had established the foundation for the hereafter Chinese vernacular novels development.