Chinese Narratologies
This book provides a more rational and systematic explanation for the origin and evolution of the Chinese narrative tradition, based on studies of Chinese literary classics, local culture and items such as bronze wares and porcelain vessels with “portraye
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Chinese Narratologies
Chinese Narratologies
Xiuyan Fu
Chinese Narratologies
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Xiuyan Fu Jiangxi Normal University Nanchang, China Translated by Weisheng Tang
ISBN 978-981-15-7506-8 ISBN 978-981-15-7507-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7507-5
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Introduction: From Western Narratology to Chinese Narratology
As two very frequently used terms nowadays, “narrative” and “narration” have been expanded in their usage to the point of becoming everyday words. The nature of narrative is of course the narration of events, or more familiarly, “telling stories”. Narratology, then, is the systematic study of the secret of storytelling.1 But what is “Chinese Narratology”? How can “Chinese narrative” become a systematic “study”? Why does it matter to propose a “Chinese Narratology”? To answer these questions, it may be helpful to take a quick glance of Western Narratology, which is reasonably the very point of departure for our discussion of Chinese Narratology.
Classical Narratology: From Linguistics Models to “Physics Envy” As an independent discipline, “Narratology” was born in France in 1960s, and its incubator was structuralist linguistics, which was at the time the dominant theory in the study of language. This indebtedness to linguistics is visible everywhere in Structuralist Narratology, and it is most clearly articulated in the following comment by Roland Barthes: Linguistics, whi
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