小说神话叙事形态表现——兼及中国当代小说的考察

The Form Representation of Novel’s Mythological Narration——A Study of Contemporary Chinese Novels

从叙事学角度对小说神话叙事的形态表现进行描述,主要集中于几个方面。"故事"是神话叙事的核心,在小说创作中,故事本身以及情节链条都会被"叙事"重组,成为小说神话叙事的主要特色。在叙事主体层面,小说神话叙事的叙事者选取了与传统神话叙事不同的人称与视角,在其中熔铸现代人的生存之思与理性考量,以与远古神话的精神内蕴相对应。小说神话叙事的话语形态,在中国当代小说中主要表现为四种类型,在不同类型中,中国传统的神话资源得到了不同方式与程度的运用,体现出小说神话叙事话语形态的多元趋向。

From the perspective of narratology,this paper describes the form representation of novel’s mythological narration,mainly focusing on several aspects. "Story" is the core of mythological narration.In novel creation,the story itself and the plot chain will be reorganized by "narration",which becomes the main feature of novel’s mythological narration.On the narrative subject level,the mythological narrator chooses different persons and perspectives from traditional mythological narration,in which modern people’s survival thinking and rational considerations are melted to correspond to the spiritual connotation of ancient myth.The discourse form of mythological narration is mainly manifested in four types in contemporary Chinese fiction.In different types,traditional Chinese myth resources have been used in different ways and degrees,reflecting the pluralistic trend of the discourse form of novel’s mythological narration.