跨媒介叙事:当代百老汇音乐剧的叙事策略——以音乐剧《圣诞颂歌》为例

Cross-Media Narrative: On the Narrative Strategies of Contemporary Broadway Musicals

纵观西方音乐剧的发展历程,可以发现叙事基因以一种特殊的形态融入了音乐剧文本及音乐本体中,使之成为了一种以"综合性"为特征的跨媒介叙事载体。而经典文学作品在艺术裂变时代背景下,通过不同媒介进行文学重构,重新阐释了文学的形式和内容,从纸张呈现到舞台承载和音乐演绎,经典文学被赋予了新的时代内涵。以跨媒介叙事语境为路径,从后经典叙事理论的角度审视由查尔斯·狄更斯小说改编的叙事音乐剧《圣诞颂歌》中的叙事空间、叙事视角、音乐叙事和媒介性,探讨音乐剧演绎与原版小说对叙事的不同利用方式,以及给叙事学研究带来的新的可能性,对中国的音乐剧研究和发展不无裨益。

Looking back upon the development of Western musicals,we can find that the narrative has always been integrated into words and songs in a form characterized by"synthesis",making the musical itself a perfect vehicle of cross-media narrative.In an age of Art"fission",classic literary works are reconstructed via different media,with their forms and contents reinterpreted.From the words printed on paper to stage performance and musical representation,classic literature is endowed with new meaning of the age.This paper examines,in a cross-media context,and from the perspective of post classic narrative,the narrative space,narrative perspective,musical narrative,and medium language in A Christmas Carol,a narrative musical adapted from Charles Dickens’famous novel,exploring the difference in their use of narrative between the musical and its original novel and the new possibilities brought to narratology research,with a view to contributing to the research and development of musicals in China.