佛教与明代神魔小说的宏观空间构建  

Buddhism and Macroscopic Space Construction of Novels of Gods and Demons in the Ming Dynasty

作　　者：刘雨过 LIU Yuguo(College of Literature and Media,Hechi University,Yizhou,Guangxi 546300)

机构地区：[1]河池学院文学与传媒学院,广西宜州546300

出　　处：《中国文学研究》2021年第2期74-80,共7页Research of Chinese Literature

基　　金：河池学院高层次人才项目“明代神魔小说空间关系研究”(2019GCC003)。

摘　　要：佛教与明代神魔小说的宏观空间构建有密切关联,以神魔小说中天界、幽冥、凡间三大空间为代表,基本上都吸收和改造了佛教三界、地狱和四大部洲的空间观念。佛教这些纷繁复杂的空间观念在神魔小说中并未原样照搬,而是与中国本土文化相融合,形成了有利于小说情节叙述的较为简单明了的空间观念。佛教深邃的空间理论给神魔小说的空间构建提供了极大的理论支撑与艺术启发,其宏大的空间格局让神魔小说具有更高的思想旨趣,使得人物形象具有更为极致化的法术技能和思想个性,让神魔小说的情节线索更加复杂生动。佛教宏观空间观念让神魔小说建立了一个虚实结合、循环运转的"天界—凡间—幽冥"空间体系,使得人物形象拥有多重身份,空间内事物之间产生了新的空间关系,生发出摇曳多姿而又极具特色的空间艺术。Represented by the three spaces of heaven,darkness and earth in the novels of Gods and Demons,Buddhism is closely related to the macroscopic space construction of those novels in the Ming Dynasty,which basically comes from the absorption and transformation of the space concepts of the three worlds of Buddhism,hell and the four continents. These complicated space concepts of Buddhism are not copied exactly in the novels of Gods and Demons. Instead,they are integrated with the local Chinese culture to form a relatively simple and clear space concept that is conducive to the plot narration of the novels. The profound space theory of Buddhism provides great theoretical support and artistic inspiration for the space construction of the novels of Gods and demons,and its grand spatial pattern makes the novels of Gods and Demons have higher ideological purities and the characters have greater magic skills as well as ideological personalities,and keeps the plot clues of the novels of Gods and Demons more complex and vivid. The macroscopic space concept of Buddhism enables the novels of Gods and Demons to establish a space system of"heaven,earth,and darkness",which combines spirit and reality and circulates. As a result,the characters have multiple identities,and new space relations are generated among things in the space,giving rise to the space art with great variety and characteristics.

关 键 词：神魔小说 佛教 宏观空间 

分 类 号：I207.4[文学—中国文学]