什么是“叙事”?概念的流变、争论与重新界定

What Is “Narrative”?Variants,Debates,and Redefinition of the Concept

叙事学是关于叙事的理论,它以叙事为主要研究对象。叙事学研究的逻辑起点在于对叙事的认知和了解。只有首先回答了"什么是叙事?"我们才有可能更好地回答"怎么研究叙事?"本文主要从"事件再现"、"文本类型"、"跨学科视角"等三个层面,梳理了自结构主义叙事学以降,西方叙事学界关于叙事的多重定义,以及部分西方学者关于叙事定义的争论,并在此基础上试图对叙事作出新的界定,即:叙事是以某种媒介为基础、具有某种意义的某种序列。

Taking narrative as its central concern, narratology is the study of narrative. Accordingly, the starting point of narratology is the knowledge and recognition of the concept ＂narrative＂. To answer the question ＂how to study narrative？＂, we must first of all answer the question ＂what is narrative？＂. At the levels of ＂representation of events＂, ＂text typology＂ and ＂interdisciplinary perspective＂, this paper not only examines a vadety of definitions of narrative from the structuralism to the present, but also reviews the nature of the debate of this concept. Finally, it tries to redefine narrative as a meaningful sequence based on a certain media.