话本小说“篇首”的结构形式及其历史演进

The structural form of the preludes of Huaben and its historical evolution

话本小说是中国文学史上重要的一种文学样式,从文学角度进行研究的论著很多。本文从修辞史的角度切入,以定量分析与统计计算的方法对话本小说“篇首”的结构形式进行了较为系统的归纳概括,并以具体的数据统计为依据,提示了话本小说“篇首”结构的历史演进规律,勾勒了其具体的历史演进轨迹。

Huaben was a very important literary type in the Chinese literary history. Unlike many of the studies which just fixed their research angle on literature, this essay, with the new version of rhetorical history, induces and concludes the structural form of the preludes of Huaben with statistics and by quantitative analysis. Besides, it also gives an outline of the historical evolution rule and the track of the structural form of Huaben's preludes.