教育小说《歧路灯》在中国小说史上的地位

关于《歧路灯》的题材定位历来众说纷纭.它是属于世情的小说还是教育小说,究竟该给《歧路灯》的题材以怎样准确的定位。从教育小说释名和教育小说题材的流变等方面研究来看,应当确认清代的《歧路灯》为中国教育小说题材,它以散文的写法,通过一定的虚构,描述浪子回头的故事,具有教育意义和某种教寓和惩戒性质。

On the Role Played by the Educational Novel--Lamp of Branch Road in the History of the Chinese Novels

There have been a lot of different arguments on the genre of Lamp of Branch Road. The problem is whether this novel can be taken as a work describing the secular reality or as an educational one. In a word, how to position the genre of this novel in an accurate way? If based on the aspects of the literal interpretation of educational novel and of the genre change of educational novels, this novel can be confirmed to be an educational one. It has described in a prose and fictional mode a story of loafer returning to the right track, and has a meaning of education characterized with suggestive guiding and disciplining.