叙事开端:从“头”说起的艺术

Narrative Beginning: The Art of Launching a Story

叙事开端是当下叙事学研究的一个重要论题，引起了西方学者的热烈讨论。与此相反，国内学者对叙事开端的研究则较为生疏，没有给予足够的重视和关注。本文在梳理西方叙事学界关于开端研究的基础上，重点探讨了四个命题：（1）虚假的开端；（2）文学叙事的开端与跨媒介叙事的开端；（3）叙事开端与叙事结尾之间的内在联系；（4）叙事开端未来研究的方向和任务。

Narrative beginning is one of the central issues in current narratology, which has been heatedly discussed by western narratologists. However,little attention has been paid to this issue in China. This paper, taking narrative beginning as its central concern, reviews the existing studies of narrative beginning, at four levels ： （ 1 ） false beginning, （ 2 ） beginning in literary and transmedia narratives, （ 3 ） the interconnection between beginning and ending, and （4） future studies of narrative beginning.