《尚书·金縢》的叙事学解读

A Narrative Analysis on "Jinteng"

《尚书》是中国古代最早的一部记言兼叙事的历史文选,也是中国古代第一部散文总集,其中的叙事篇章都具有很高的文学价值,尤其是《金縢》。《金縢》全文调动了周公、成王和史官三种叙事视角,通过对三种叙事视角的限制和调整,造成全篇情节上的矛盾与悬念,具有强烈的小说审美效果,因而其被许多研究者视为中国古代最早的一篇短篇小说。应用叙事学的视点理论,结合文化人类学的相关研究方法,从人物心理描写和景物描写两方面对《金縢》的叙事进行分析和解读,以期揭示《金縢》文本深层的思想内涵和潜在的艺术技巧。

＂Shangshu＂, as the first Chinese historical anthology, consists of speech record and narrative, also is Chinese first prose anthology, the narrative part of which has more literary value, specially the ＂Jinteng＂, which, by limiting and changing zhougong, chengwang and historian perspective, creates contradiction and suspense in its plots, thus making strong aesthetical result and having been regarded as the first fiction in China. This paper tries to analysis ＂Jinteng＂ by using narrative theory and methods of culture - anthropology in order to reveal its inner thinking and artistic technique.