运河与西湖小说兴起的四重空间

A Study of Canals and Four Spaces for the Rise of West Lake Novels

西湖小说以浓郁的地域空间色彩独树一帜,是运河孕育的硕果。运河新建或重塑了西湖小说兴起的地理空间、小说作者的流寓空间、小说文本的叙事空间与小说作品的传播接受空间。杭州是一座运河之城,奠定了西湖小说兴起的地理基础;因为运河交通便利,南宋初年大量的说话艺人和明清时期的许多小说家寓居杭州,成为西湖小说兴起的关键因素;运河参与建构了丰富、立体的西湖小说叙事空间,成为叙事缘起与原点,在串连故事场景、绾结叙事线索、拓展叙事场景、复制"老地方"的怀旧空间、贯通和整合叙事空间等方面具有重要作用;运河还为西湖小说创造了优越的传播条件,提供了大量的接受群体。这些对加强中国小说史的时空形态的关系研究具有重要意义。

The novel of West Lake was unique in its rich regional space color, which was the fruitful result of the canals. Canals have created or reshaped the geographic space of the rise of the West Lake novel, the living space of the novelist, the narrative space of the novel text and the communication and acceptance space of the novel works. Hangzhou is a city of canals. The canals nourished the prosperity and development of the city and laid the geographical conditions for the rise of the West Lake novel;because of the convenient transportation of the canals, a large number of artists who spoke in the early Southern Song Dynasty and many novelists in the Ming and Qing Dynasties lived in Hangzhou, which became the key factor for the rise of the West Lake novel;the canals participated in the construction of a rich and three-dimensional narrative of the West Lake novel Narrative space, as the origin and point of narration, plays an important role in connecting story scenes, drawing up narrative clues, expanding narrative scenes, duplicating the nostalgic space of "old place", connecting and integrating narrative space, etc. The canals also create superior communication conditions for West Lake novels and provide a large number of immigrant readers. These are of great significance in strengthening the relationship between space and time in the history of Chinese fiction.