浅析《老残游记》叙事视角的文化涵义

晚清小说中出现了大批不同于传统叙事风格的新作品,这些作品在不同的叙事向度上有其独特的贡献。《老残游记》作为晚清小说的顶峰之作,其文本书写模式值得深入探讨,其叙事视角的复杂性,在当时小说文本中具有代表性。《老残游记》运用的视角模式从总体上讲是一种＂有限视角＂模式,但＂视角越界＂现象也存在不少,对这种＂视角越界＂并不能武断地进行否定,而应该结合当时的文化背景和作者的创作意图,对其进行深层的探究。

ON THE CULTURAL MEANING OF THE NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE OF LAOCAN＇ S TRAVELS

A large number of new works emerged in the fiction of Late Qing Dynasty different from the traditional narrative style and these works have their own unique contribution in different narrative dimension. Laocan＇ s Travels as a masterpiece of the fiction of Late Qing Dynasty, was typically representative at that time due to its complicated narrative perspective. Therefore the writing mode of the book is worthy of further exploration. Generally speaking, the perspective mode Laocan＇ s Travels uses is a mode of＂ limited perspective＂ but there exist some phenomena of ＂cross-border perspective＂. This＂ cross-border perspective＂ can not be denied arbitrarily and needs deep studying in the light of the cultural background at that time and the author＇s intent to create.