A Negative Poetics: Desire and Death in the "Xiuxiang Jin Ping Mei"

慾望與死亡在《繡像金瓶梅》中的呈現

10.6184/TKR.201212_43(1).0006

Hui-Li Zheng

慾望 ； 死亡 ； 個人 ； 文人化小說 ； desire ； death ； individual ； negative poetics ； Chinese novel

Tamkang Review

43卷1期（2012 / 12 / 01）

99 - 121

英文

這篇文章討論慾望與死亡在《繡像金瓶梅》中的呈現。雖然繡像本歷來遠沒有詞話本受到學者的重視，這篇文章指出，基於其對個人的關注，繡像本在明清小說發展史上的地位應該予以承認和重視。不同於詞話本家國一體的意識形態架構，繡像本關注慾望和死亡，並由此反思個人和慾望的關係以及個人的存在價值。繡像本對個人的關注使其成為十七世紀中國小說發展的重要一環，也在明清小說從文人小說到文人化小說發展過程中有重要的一席之地。

This paper argues that the ”xiuxiang” text of ”Jin Ping Mei”, long eclipsed by the cihua text, should be acknowledged for its status in the history of the Chinese novel. This paper argues that in contrast to the political double vision of family and the state in the cihua text, the ”xiuxiang” text directs our attention to a double vision of desire and death instead, and is consistent with the seventeenth-century Chinese novel concerned with the individual. The negative poetics of desire and death, mapped out on both the moral and allegorical level of the ”xiuxiang” text, provide structural as well as ideological unity. More importantly, the ”xiuxiang” text of ”Jin Ping Mei” presents a negative poetics for the history of the Chinese novel with respect to the conceptualizations and representation of the individual, and marks a significant development in the literati-ization of the Chinese novel.

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