戏剧文学的救灾解难功能——《俄狄浦斯王》与《窦娥冤》对读

文章探讨传统社会关于灾害和禳灾的神话观念，以希腊和中国的经典戏剧作品《俄狄浦斯王》和《窦娥冤》为例，展开文学人类学的跨文化透视，揭示从禳解性的仪式行为到替罪羊式的悲剧文学发生的文化自卫法则，重新建构有关文学功能的理论认识。

Functions of Disaster Relief and Difficulty Overcoming in Dramatic Literature--A Comparative Interpretation between Oedipus and Snow in Midsummer

Taking Greek and Chinese classical works Oedipus and Snow in Midsummer as exam- ples, this thesis probes into the mythological concepts of disasters and their adverting in traditional society, unfolds the cross--cultural perspective of literary anthropology, brings to light the rules of self--cultural defense occurred in the disaster--averting ritual and the scapegoat--like tragic litera- tures, and reconstructs a related theoretical sense of literary functions.