「情史」與「情」之知識型構

The Episteme of 'Qing' in 'The History of Love'

《情史》的內容，自現代文類的角度來說，固然以文言短篇小說為大宗，有關小說本身的文獻來源和敘述結構，學界不乏討論。筆者關切的則是：馮夢龍如何看待他所編纂的材料？其所採取的視角，又如何落實為處理文本的架構，並形成「情」的認識途徑？本文認為「情史」的概念，既關聯於有秩序的情天地，且其構想中的「秩序」，並未直接取資於禮學傳統，而是藉由兼容「史」與「類」的知識型構，以傳達「情」為核心的倫理意識。另外值得注意的是，就編纂架構來考察，以「情」連結宇宙萬物的主張，其實無法從類目與彼此關聯之說明，得到充分的體現與支持；另一方面，「情」之「事」、「理」未必一致的現象，也讓「情世界」充滿疑慮與缺憾。

The bulk of Feng Meng-long's 馮夢龍 ”Qing shi” (情史 The History of Love) is made up of short stories, the textual sources and narrative structures of which have already been widely discussed in the academic world. This study concerns how the author regarded the materials he compiled, and how this viewpoint shaped the framework he employed to arrange the text and form a way for the reader to come to an understanding of qing 情 (love/affection). I believe that the author's concept of a ”history of love” is connected to an ordered ”realm of affection,” and that this conceptualized order does not rely directly on traditional etiquette; rather, it is drawn from an episteme that accommodates both the ”history” and ”types” of love to communicate a moral awareness with qing at its core. It is also worth noting that, in examining the framework of the compilation, the explanation of the associations between the categories does not adequately embody or support the author's view that qing is that which connects everything in the universe. Besides this, the fact that occurrences of and reasoning associated with qing are not necessarily consistent phenomena also creates doubts and flaws in the realm of affection.