论《红楼梦》的时间倒错

On the Chronological Disorder of A Dream of Red Mansions

时间倒错是作家一种重要的叙事话语和叙事策略,它主要有倒叙和预叙两种形式。学界普遍认为中国古典叙事作品中"预叙"是特征,而倒叙相对于西方运用甚少。本文试以《红楼梦》为个案分析,探讨其时间倒错上的具体类型、在文本中的叙事功用以及所包含的文化意蕴。

The chronological disorder is an important narrative discourse and strategy which mainly refers to analepsis and prolepsis. The academe widely thinks prolepsis is a characteristic in the Chinese classical novels in which analepsis is less used, compared with the western novels. This article tries to analyze A Dream of Red Man-sions as an example to probe into the specific types of the chronological disorder, its narrative functions in the text and its cultural connotation.