意象在《红楼梦》中的叙事功能

Narrative Functions of Image in A Dream of Red Mansions

意象具有叙事功能,发挥着独特而重要的叙事作用,这是中国古代小说,尤其《红楼梦》的艺术贡献。它是小说诗化的重要形式特征。独特的意象介入叙事,从担当叙事者、主旨象征、情境创设、叙事层次转换、人物形象建构、叙事空间拓展、叙事修辞等方面,发挥了重要而独特的叙事作用,使得小说文本呈示出独特的叙事风貌。

Image is of narrative functions and plays an original and important narrative role. This is an artistic contribution to the ancient Chinese novels, especially to the novel A Dream of Red Mansions. Image is an important formal feature in poetic novels. The unique image gets involved in narration and plays an original important narrative role in narrators, gist symbols, situational designs, narrative coherent transformations, portraying characters, developing narrative space, narrative rhetoric and so on. The unique image, therefore, makes novel versions demonstrate an original narrative styles and feature.