On Gender Discourses In "Sanyan"

Through the close reading and analyse of gender discourse in"Sanyan", the article wants to observe the gender thoughts of its authors, discuss their historic headstream ,and study the relationship bwteen gender thoughts and its literary expression.By using the methods of comparation, we found there are two basic discourse forms in "Sanyan",one is normative discourse,which is influenced by mainstream gender criterion,the other is non- normative discourse,which was conflicted with normative one. As the article has showed,the former ,however,was mainly composed of classic gender criterion and Neo-Confucianism gender thoughts.On the contrary,non-normative discourse was based on emotion which was rooted in one's heart. With the counterwork and cooperateon of this two discourse, abundance and arrangements are presented,which make "Sanyan" take on full vitality.In the first chapter of this article, mainstream gender criterion and non-mainstream gender thoughts in late Ming dynasty are discussed in order to outline the gender background of "Sanyan"; scholars' researches fruits are synthesized in chapter two,so that the scripts for story-telling (in Song and Yuan folk literature) and the novel written by storytellers of Ming dynasty are differentiated. With the discussion of chapter three, how the storytellers of Ming dynasty recomposited the same theme ones in Song and Yuan folk literature are showed;In the last two chapters, We addressed ourselves to the different textual representation bwteen Song and Yuan and Ming's scripts in "Sanyan" under the same topics .As a results, we figure out that normative discourse dominated the gender discourse in "Sanyan",and non- normative discourses expressed in Song and Yuan scripts for story-telling take on weaken trendency in "Sanyan".