《聊斋志异》预叙艺术渊源及叙事功能拓展

The Historical Origin and Narrative Function Expansion of Prolepsis in Chinese Ancient Literature Liao Zhai Zhi Yi

《聊斋志异》有着深远的预叙艺术渊源,使用了卜筮式、梦示式、角色化、直叙式等多种预叙,具有构成叙事悬念、引发后续事件、昭示命运力量、彰显人物性格、反映人情世态、揭示社会变迁等多种叙事功能。

The prolepsis art employed in Chinese ancient literature Liao Zhai Zhi Yi can be dated back to long time ago, which has varied ways of constructing： the divination, dream telling, character narration,authorial description, to name just a few. The means of prolepsis in this works is endowed with many narrati-ve functions, such as narrative suspense building, subsequent events triggering,fate power manifesting, character traits demonstrating, human relationships and social realities reflecting,social changes uncovering,etc.