贺大卫：《<罕王>的平行式：广西中西部壮族史诗》，陆慧玲、李扬译，《民族文学研究》2020年第3期。

【内容摘要】平行式普遍存在于壮族诗歌、歌曲、仪式经文和各种口头文类中。文章以壮族仪式经文《罕王》中大量存在的平行式为研究对象,在概述其文化背景和社会作用的基础上,分析实时仪式演述语境和声响景观,首次对这些平行式进行统计与类型分类,将之分为平行式对句、类似平行式对句和扩大式平行式对句等,考察其修辞和韵律效果,并初步讨论了经文中出现的存在对应关系的词语和概念类型,包括自然类型、中原——本地的平行式。

【关键词】壮族经文；《罕王》；史诗；平行式

Parallelism in the Hanvueng: A Zhuang Verse Epic from West-Central Guangxi in Southern China

David Holm   Tran. Li Yang, Lu Huiling

Abstract: Zhuang is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in southern China. Parallelism is ubiquitous in Zhuang poetry and song, in ritual texts, and in a range of oral genres. Curiously, this salient fact has generally escaped the notice of scholars writing on the subject of Zhuang poetics. This article looks specifically at the phenomenon of parallelism in one particular Zhuang ritual text from west-central Guangxi. This is the Hanvueng, a long verse narrative that is recited at rituals intended to deal with cases of unnatural death and serious family quarrels, especially feuding between brothers. I provide a general description of the role of song and parallel verse in Zhuang oral culture. I next present a typology of poetic lines and passages exhibiting strict parallelism and quasi-parallelism, and also look at the rhetorical and rhythmical uses of non-parallel lines. As a second step in this investigation, I re-analyse these typological categories in terms of the recitation soundscape as it unfolds in real time and in ritual performance. This second step brings us back from an objectivist account to a variety of emic perspectives, and allows us to see more clearly the rhetorical and emotive power generated by the ongoing narration – and its artistry – for a range of participants within the ritual space.

Keywords: Zhuang ritual text, Hanvueng, epic, parallelism