點石飛影•海上寫真——晚清民初「百美圖」敘事的文化轉渡

Abstract

本論文冀爬羅明清以降「百美圖」敘事傳統，聚焦於清末上海圖文並茂的報刊文學及圖像書籍，進而探究晚清民初上海文藝圈各種「百美圖」敘事文本中透顯出思維概念的轉渡過程：「百美圖」如何影響及創造了近現代文學中圖像敘事的範式？當視覺的因素突出之後，文學的想像是被削弱了，抑或其得以乘載及涵融更豐富的意象？乃至於透過此圖像媒介，轉渡為更具活力的文化創見？藉此反省近代文人文化私情論述與隸屬於小道的香豔文學傳統在晚清民初上海文化圈的發凡與變演過程。

Focusing on the pictorial journalism, newspapers, and graphic books, this paper intends to sort out the narrative convention of “Portraits of a Hundred Beauties” originated from Ming and Qing dynasties in order to explore the transitional process of dimensions of thinking revealed in various “Portraits of a Hundred Beauties” narrative texts unique to the Shanghai literary scene during the late Qing Dynasty and the establishing of the early Republic of China. How did “Portraits of a Hundred Beauties” affect and create the norm of the pictorial narrative for the early modern literature? Did it whittle down the literary creativity with prominent visual elements? Or quite the contrary, did it bear and integrate even richer meanings and images within this format and eventually transmitting this vigor into a more dynamic cultural creativity? Through exploration, this paper shall make manifest the process of how modernist literati’s cultural “confidentialness” discourse and the conventional erotic literature heritage—which considered as non-mainstream—germinated, evolved and transformed in the Shanghai literary scene during the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic period.