摘要
普鲁塔克的《名人传》作为一部以道德劝谕为写作目的的传记作品,其创作基础却主要是历史叙事,这便使"传记"和"历史"在《名人传》中形成了一种内在的紧张关系。为应对这种紧张关系,普鲁塔克在写作方法上强调用"传记"引导"历史",通过他所认定的客观历史来记录传主的德性与事迹;而在面对非历史性材料时,他则时常对神话和神话人物进行合理化的历史解释,同时恳请读者抱持宽容的态度接受那些无法解释的神话、传说和人物轶事;此外,在传记的结构方面,他采用了类似现代比较史学若干特征的平行比较的方法。以上这些构成了《名人传》的基本叙事模式。
Plutarch's Lives is a biography aiming at moral exhortation.However,at the center of the writing is historical narration,which forms an internal tension between the“biographical”and“historical”natures of the work.To reduce this tension,Plutarch places an emphasis on“biography”rather than“history”in the style of his writing,by recording the virtues and deeds of the protagonists reflected in the objective history that he firmly believes in.While facing non-historical sources,he often offers reasonable and historical explanations for the myths and mythical characters.Meanwhile he pleads to the reader to gracefully accept those unexplainable myths,legends and anecdotes.Furthermore,he adopts parallel comparison that is similar to some features of modern comparative history in the structure of his biography.The above-mentioned features constitute the basic narrative mode of Plutarch's Lives.
出处
《史学理论研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2018年第2期85-95,159,共12页
Historiography Bimonthly
作者简介
作者江琴,华中师范大学历史文化学院博士研究生。
