《韩诗外传》与《吴越春秋》中要离传奇的文本考察

《韩诗外传》与《吴越春秋》中的要离传奇在文本上有着明显的前后继承痕迹。从文本分析上看,《韩诗外传》在情节上多想像、虚构成分,影响着《吴越春秋》中的情节,使之表面合理而实荒幻,最终有别于史而成其为小说;在叙事结构上,《韩诗外传》的故事时序为早期的初具形态的历史演义小说所接纳,并在叙事时序上有所超越;在叙事情境上,《韩诗外传》的作者叙事情境为后来的讲史话本、历史演义小说所采纳,《吴越春秋》则在局部情节中以人物叙事情境之名而行作者叙事情境之实,开中国历史演义小说全知全能型人物叙事情境的风气之先。《韩诗外传》的文学性,对早期历史演义小说的形成有着直接的影响。

A Textual Research of Yao Li''''s Legend in "External Commentary to the Han Odes" and "Springs and Autumns of Wu and Yue"

"External Commentary to the Han Odes" obviously affects"Spring and Autumns of Wu and Yue" in its text about Yao Li's legend.As far as the text is concerned,the former contains more imaginary plots,while the latter becomes a fiction instead of a historical record with its seeming rationality but actual fantasies.As regards the narrative structure,the time sequence of "External Commentary to the Han Odes" has been adopted by the early historical romance and transcended in the narrative sequence,and its narrative situation has been absorbed by the later popular story and historical romance,so that the book produces a direct effect on the early historical romance.In "Springs and Autumns of Wu and Yue",the author employs the character to narrate the situation in some plots but in fact he himself becomes the narrator,so as to take the lead in the versatile character's narration in the Chinese historical romance.