《金瓶梅》与《红楼梦》窥听叙事比较论

A Comparative Study of Stealthily Peeping&Listening Narrative in The Golden Lotus and A Dream of Red Mansions

窥听叙事在世情小说《金瓶梅》与《红楼梦》中都占据较大分量。在叙事的时空设置方面,窥听的时间节点多以生日和祭日为主;空间设置以隔窗窥听、隔门与隔帘窥听、隔院与隔壁窥听为最常见的三种形式。二书的共同特征是利用窥听情节塑造人物形象、推动情节发展,但《金瓶梅》还较多地关注了人物的反窥听行为。审美与审丑的不同意蕴造就了《金瓶梅》与《红楼梦》在窥听情节叙事方面的雅俗之分。

Stealthily Peeping&Listening narratives take an important part in The Golden Lotus and A Dream of Red Mansions.In narrative space-time settings,the time nodes of snooping mainly fall on the birthday and memorial day;the space settings are mainly window snooping,door and curtain snooping,courtyard and wall snooping.The common feature of the two books is to use the plot to shape the characters and promote the plot development.However,The Golden Lotus pays more attention to the anti-spying behavior of the characters.The different connotations of aesthetics and ugliness appreciation make The Golden Lotus elegant and A Dream of Red Mansions vulgar in the narrative of the plot.