| The subject of my dissertation is the narratological analysis of Bai Juyi's "Song of Eternal Sorrow." Drawing on Gerard Genette's theory, I include three elements of narrative analysis: point of view, characterization, and sequential structure. The purposes of my analysis are to examine the development of narrative characteristics, primarily the relationship between the fictional narratives and the historical narratives, in Chinese narrative poetry, and to explore the interplay of narrative elements between poetry and other literary genres.;My research makes contributions to three areas: it evaluates the place of Tang dynasty narrative poetry in the development of Classical Chinese narrative tradition; it compares the relationship between fictional narrative and historical narrative; and it appraises the influence of narrative poetry on other literary genres. The examination of the narrative characteristics in poetry can help us to further understand the interplay between narrative poetry with other literary genres in Chinese poetic tradition. |
