条贯清晰的叙事艺术——《逸周书》叙事特点举隅

The Narrative Art of Clarity and Consistency——An exemplification of narrative techniques of Annotated Historical Record of the Zhou Dynasty

《逸周书》中若干可靠的西周文献里,其条贯清晰的叙事艺术颇引人注目,也很值得研究。这些篇章或按时空坐标记叙复杂事件,或用意联法表示事件的先后次序,其条贯清晰的叙事艺术特色比甲骨卜辞和商周铭文更显成熟、充分。

Annotated Historical Record of the Zhou Dynasty in a number of reliable literature of the Western Zhou Dynasty, is worth studying, its clear and consistent narrative art arresting attention of scholars. The narrative chapters are either made up of complex events in the chronological and special order, or related with the sequence of events indicated through sense associations, its artistic characteristics of clear and consistent narration revealing more maturity and full than the oracle inscriptions and bronze inscriptions in the Shang and Zhou dynasties.