试论冯梦龙的笑话理论及其意义--以冯梦龙辑录的三部笑话集为例

明代著名的通俗文学作家及民间文学搜集者冯梦龙(1574~1646),曾经编选了《笑府》、《广笑府》、《古今谭概》(又名《古今笑史》或《古今笑》)等笑话专集。在他编选的三部笑话专书的序文及部分引言里,冯梦龙比较集中地从笑话的接受心理、笑话的本质特征以及笑话的分类三个方面阐述了他的笑话理论,充分地表达了他对笑话这一民间文学体裁的理性认识。在我国古代稍欠发达的笑话理论史上,冯氏的理论可以算得上是一个异数。认真总结这一笑话理论遗产,将有益于我们更好地理解笑话这一民间文学体裁。

The Study of Feng Menglong''''s Folkjoke Theories and Values--Based on Three Folkjoke corpuses edited by Feng Menglong

Feng Menglong,the famous popular literature author and folk literature collecter,had ever edited "the joke palace","the wider joke palace","the jokes from past to now" etc.In all the preambles and introductions of these joke books,Feng Menglong comparatively focused on the following three aspects excpounding his joke theories,that is,joke's receiver mentality,joke's essential feature,joke's types thoroughly expressing Feng Menglong's rational ideas of joke theories.In Chinese joke theory history,which had only a poor related research,Feng Menglong is very distinguished,evaluting Feng Menglong's joke theories would contribute to the research about the folkjoke.