于畅谈风月之中，寓谐铎谲谏之意——“退中有进”的民初小说理论

小说理论、小说观念的调整是造成民初小说创作面貌迥异于清末的重要因素。表面上看,这一调整似乎只是传统小说观念的回潮,但它以世俗化、趣味化来调解清末小说的政治化、功利化,实则是走向世俗艺术的一种进步,也是中国小说观念的现代变革中不可或缺的一环。

Implying Tactful Remonstration in the Romantic Talking --"Process- in - retreat" Fictional Theory in the Initial Period of ROC

It is the adjustment of fictional theory and concept of ROC that led to the totally different features of fiction writing in the initial period of ROC from that in the last reign of the Qing Dynasty. This adjustment, which seemed just the resurgence of traditional fiction theory and mediated the utilitarialism in the last reign of the Qing Dynasty with interest and popularization, was the indispensable step in the process from the classics to the modern.