清代中期話本小說敘事模式析論

Analysis on Narration of Colloquial Short Story in the Medium Term of Qing Dynasty

本論文以清代中期話本小說《雨花香》、《通天樂》、《娛目醒心編》、《醒夢駢言》等為主要研究文本。首先探討小說事件的構成方式，其次探討敘事者對故事的干預以及第一人稱敘事者的出現，最後是新聞性敘事模式的討論。
研究發現：此一時期的話本小說有以聚合式結構敘事的傾向，而其敘事者干預的情形嚴重，卻也因此而創造出符合「敘事的狀態本身就是戲劇性的」第一人稱敘事，即敘事者以第一人稱敘述自己的故事的小說。最後，本論文亦發現早在十八世紀的話本小說中，已有近似新聞性敘事模式的出現，似乎為新小說中的時事小說（近事小說），或在小說中強調「事實」的寫作方式埋下了伏筆。

This essay mainly studied on colloquial short story in the medium term of Qing Dynasty such as ''Yu Hua Xiang''《雨花香》, ''Tong Tian Le''《通天樂》, ''Yu Mu Xing Xing Bian''《娛目醒心編》and ''Xing Meng Pian Yan''《醒夢駢言》. First the formation of the story events, then the intervention of the narrator and the appearance of first-person narrative and finally the patterns of news-reporting narration was analyzed and discussed.
It is found that: colloquial short stories of this time tends to use paradigmatic structural narrations. The interventions of the narrator appear very often, and the way of first-person narration therefore started to be applied in the stories. Finally, this essay also found the patterns of news-reporting narration had already been applied early in the colloquial short stories of the eighteenth century.