钱钟书与林语堂散文的幽默品格及其文本差异

20世纪三四十年代同时提倡幽默文风的文学大家钱钟书与林语堂，其幽默品格各有特色，前者重“理”，深得西方随笔的理趣，充满了学者式的思辨与博弈；后者重“情”，即情调，情趣，是对中国古典散文精神的继承，追求士大夫的闲适与雅趣，这与晚明“性灵文学”的渊源一脉相承。他们横移与纵向继承所形成的不同幽默风格及其文本差异，丰富了现代散文的内涵，对散文审美体系的建立产生了重要影响。

Sense of humor and discrepancy between essays of Qian Zhongshu and Lin Yutang

Both Qian Zhongshu and Lin Yutang promoted humorous style of assays in the 1930s and 1940s though their styles are quite different.Qian was proned to the truth,which won the prose narratives of the west and if full of scholar type of thinking and arguing;However Lin favored to the feelings which means sentiment,and he inherited the spirit of classical prose,just liked that hulking fellow in histories,which has the same strain of origin with Xingling school of literature rooted in the late Ming dynasty.The d...