“妙悟”说对道德论和本体论文学观的反叛与超越

严羽提出“妙悟”说 ,通过“以禅喻诗”的方式说明诗歌的艺术规律和审美特征。“以禅喻诗”的合法性在于 ,禅是一种具有审美、艺术化倾向的价值观。在此 ,严羽正是强调了禅的这一特征 ,以突出诗歌的审美本质 ,使文学从道德和本体的决定下走出 ,并复归审美本位

ON THE DIFFERENCE OF THE THEORY OF INGENIOUS COMPREHENSION WITH THE MORALIZING THEORY OF LITERATURE AND THE METAPHYSICAL THEORY OF LITERATURE

Yan Yu advanced the Theory of Ingenious Comprehension to explain the law and the aesthetic nature of poem by drawing an analogy between poem and Zen. The righteousness of this way is that Zen is a kind of values with aesthetic or artistic nature. Here, Yan Yu emphasized this nature of Zen to express the aesthetic essence of poem. It made literature go out of the shadow of morality and metaphysics and come back to the aesthetic standard.