刘烈茂《幻象世界的独特创造——(聊斋志异)的奇幻和构思》(《中山大学学报》1994年第3期)作者认为,《聊斋志异》创作的最大特点就是“奇幻”。《聊斋》塑造最多也是最有特色的是狐鬼精魅形象,蒲松龄之所以热衷于谈狐说鬼,并以此相伴终生,除了文学传统、审美情趣等原因,无非看中狐鬼善于变幻和不受拘束这个特点,可以用来抒发自己的孤愤,寄托自己的幻想。作者对蒲松龄创造的狐鬼精魅群像提出自己的评判:1.狐鬼精魅群像的主导面是表现幻想而非反映现实。2.狐鬼精魅群像的闪光点在奇特幻想而非 Liu Liemao “The Unique Creation of the Imaginary World - The Fantasy and Conception of Strange Stories” (“Journal of Sun Yat-sen University” 1994 the third period) The author believes that the most important feature of the creation of “Strange Tales” is “fantasy”. “Liao Zhai” shaped most and most distinctive fox ghost image, Pu Songling reason why keen to talk about fox and ghost, and thus accompanied by life, in addition to the literary traditions, aesthetic taste and other reasons, nothing more than fox good change And unfettered this feature can be used to express their indignation, sustenance their own imagination. The author puts forward his own judgment on the group of fox ghosts created by Pu Songling: 1. The dominant face of fox ghost group shows fantasy rather than reality. 2. fox ghosts glamorous group like the flash point in the peculiar fantasy instead