叙事的诗意追问--中国传统叙事文学的史外史观

摘要

中国古代叙事文学是从历史叙事而非神话叙事开始的，因此历史叙事理念几乎成了中国古代叙事文学与生俱来的一个重要情结。而中国叙事文学的美学自觉，在一定层面上便成了摆脱这一情结的一个过程。这一过程基本上就是通过对史外史的审美追求，到超越史学文统的虚构性叙事文学观念的兴起，而最终落实为对俗世生存诗意的追问与经营。%Ancient narrative literature in China originated with historical narration rather than legend narration.Therefore, Chi-nese ancient narrative literature inherently gives great priority to the historical narration.However, the aesthetic self-conscious-ness of narrative literature, in part, has become the process of getting rid of this preference, through which are sequenced by the aesthetic pursuit of records outside the history, the rise of fictional narrative literature beyond historiography tradition and finally the pursuit and management of the sophisticated existence poetry.