| 摘要: | 從《金瓶梅》到《紅樓夢》，學者嘗試以世情小說來指稱。這類小說以描寫家庭、社會的百態為其標的，使世情小說難以與明清其他類型的小說明確區隔開來，所以應縮小世情小說的範圍，回到《金瓶梅》、《紅樓夢》中的家庭、社會生活起始點─情欲問題，從小說中的人欲與人情著手進行研究。就人欲與人情的軌跡看來，有幾部小說補足了從《金瓶梅》到《紅樓夢》的變化紛陳，因此除了世情小說雅俗特色的學習、模式分類的承繼關係，人欲與人情同樣為世情小說的探討重心。在本文中，即以《金瓶梅》與《紅樓夢》兩部小說當作人欲、人情的代表，研究兩部小說的人欲、人情之異同，更進一步擴及前後擁有同樣題材的小說。
透過《金瓶梅》與《紅樓夢》的人欲、人情內容獲知，兩書不只是明清世情小說的兩項指標，還是前後世情小說的領頭者與學習者，因此世情小說的陣營應該擴大至《續金瓶梅》、《醒世姻緣傳》、豔情小說《如意君傳》、才子佳人小說代表作《玉嬌梨》、《平山冷燕》、《好逑傳》與《林蘭香》等小說文本。
結合小說研究文本與人欲、人情問題，本論文分成六章，其章節架構如下：
第一章為緒論，解釋世情小說研究的範圍與材料。從第二章到第六章的研究重心是人情與人欲，包括這些世情小說所各具的人情與人欲特色，以及它們之間的同中之異。第六章為結論，總結世情小說中人情與人欲的發展。
During the Ming to the Ching dynasty, novels were developed and defined as“secular”. In order to inspect the explanation and the appraisal of the secular novels, one should place importance on the leading secular novels of these dynasties. The ideologies of secular novels are human sentiment and human desire, and therefore this thesis represents the two novels, “Jin Ping Mei”and“Dream of the Red Chamber”, to be the representative works of these ideas. Moreover, besides analyzing the differences in human sentiment and human desire, it involves the secular novels of both the previous and the later dynasties.
Through the contents of Jin Ping Mei and Dream of the Red Chamber, the two novels are not only the leading landmarks of secular novels, but are also influenced by previous secular novels, and the progenitors of later works in this genre. For this reason, the scope of secular novels should be broadened to Xu Jing Ping Mei, the pornographic novels, the Scholar-Beauty novels、Hsing-Shin Yinyuan Chuan、Yu Jiao Li、Haoqui Zhuan、and Lin Lan Hsiang.
The dissertation has six paragraphs, and the following is the structure of this paper. The first paragraph is the introduction, which explains the secular novels’ depth of scope and materials. From chapters two to five, the central ideology is based on human sentiment and human desire. Moreover, these chapters refer to the common points of the secular novels, and point out their differences. In chapter 6 is the conclusion, which summarizes the development of genres within the secular novels. |
