论作为审美接受的“兴”

兴是中国古典美学中极富原创性的核心范畴之一。兴最初是作为阅读理论和接受方法而受到文论家们的关注。兴在发展过程中经历了从美刺走向审美的过程,当兴淡出于美刺教化、突显文学和审美功能的时候,兴作为接受的一面呈现出蕴藉含蓄、意在言外之美,日益满足读者对作品的认知需要,使读者从更广阔的空间体味其"韵外之致"。兴的内涵与西方接受美学理论有异曲同工之妙,又与古代的言意之辨有密切关系。

On "Xing" as Aesthetic Acceptance

Xing is a key and original category which attracts the attention of the critics as reception theory in classical Chinese esthetics.It experiences a process from moral education to aesthetics and demonstrates the beauty of implication when it goes into literature and aesthetics from moral education.It meets the needs of reader's cognition as aesthetic acceptance and appreciation from immense space and is closely related with western receptive aesthetics and "the differentiation between speech and meaning".