The Study On Encyclopedic Narration And The Encyclopedic Spatial Concept

Belonging to one kind of fictions in pre-Tang period,Encyclopedic Narration(Bo-Wu-Zhi) composed by Zhang lma who lived in western-Jin dynasty is a category of encyclopedic fictions,and the correlative studies about it are always deficient.After Lu Xun's A Brief History of Chinese Novels,the contemporary scholars mainly elaborated it from the historical angle,and classified it to the category of recording supernatural fictions.The article tries hard to change this set pattern,reveal its true colors.We adopt a brand-new study means by building a system of encyclopedic spatial concept to research the classification of Encyclopedic Narration again,and research positive promotion of the independent writing style in pre-Tang period novels by all observe shows of the encyclopedic spatial concept.The article divides into three parts:the preface,the main text and the conclusion.The part of preface mainly introduced the historical research situation about Encyclopedic Narration,together with the insufficiency and the stratification which wasn't refered to in existing research.Basing on this,it summarized the spatial consciousness of chinese ancient times, especially pre-Tang period.The part of main text divides into three chapters:The first chapter is about the constitution and concrete manifestation in the system of encyclopedic spatial concept.Firstly,the chapter combed simply the content of Encyclopedic Narration,and obtained that there was intuitive and perceptual encyclopedic spatial concept from text.Secondly,it analysed the composing system and related manifestation of encyclopedic spatial concept from three levels,and elaborated the constitutive features which they had.After constructing the system of encyclopedic spatial concept,it returned to the text of Encyclopedic Narration,and carried out thorough analysis to the concrete manifestation of encyclopedic spatial concept.The second chapter is about the literary style of encyclopedic spatial concept and tracing the root of it.Founding on the composing system in the preceding chapter,the chapter combed and summed up numerous encyclopedic spatial consciousness embodying in Encyclopedic Narration with more systematically and thoroughly,as well as examined the literary flavor which was casted on encyclopedic fictions in pre-Tang period by the system of unique spatial concept.Through summing up three kinds of performance characteristics of encyclopedic spatial concept,it elaborated the most important literary performance of encyclopedic spatial concept in Encyclopedic Narration:spatial esthetic characteristic,and its three performed ways:great esthetic -- unified encyclopedic spatial concept,fantastic esthetic -- dynamic encyclopedic spatial concept,tragic esthetic -- poetical encyclopedic spatial concept.Moreover,it examined the important influential role on spatial esthetic owing to highlighting of life consciousness in Encyclopedic Narration.At the same time,it discussed three literary connotations of encyclopedic spatial concept:non-rational intuitionistic spatial consciousness,the moral factor which echoed closely with the reality and the transformation of the knowledgeable inherited way,then comprehensive surveyed the significance of spatial esthetic which the three literary connotations had toward the encyclopedic spatial concept. Finally,it maked a whole inspection to the origin and development of encyclopedic spatial concept.The third chapter is about the promoted action which encyclopedic spatial concept exerting on encyclopedic fictions and independent writing style of fictions in pre-Tang period.The chapter discussed mainly the function of encyclopedic spatial concept toward encyclopedic fictions becoming a independent category among fictions in pre-Tang period,as well as the promotion of encyclopedic spatial concept toward independent position which fictions in pre-Tang period stood in entire phylogeny of fictions.First,regarding researchers' viewpoints all through the ages,we carried out relevant examination,then pointed out the deficiencies and amended them.We examined the new layer of esthetic characteristic from the quantitative angle and obtained the difference between encyclopedic esthetic and supernatural esthetic,thereby establishing the basis of encyclopedic fictions being a independent category,and further discussed the different esthetic effects between "reality" and "falsity",offered supporting evidence for encyclopedic fictions being a independent style.Next,through discriminating Lu Xun's viewpoint that "beginning to create novel deliberately",discussed the present understanding about independent composing condition of fictions in pre-Tang period,and brought forward a new breakthrough point to the independent writing style's promotion of pre-Tang encyclopedic fictions from a couple of the encyclopedic spatial concept's esthetic characteristic and narrative characteristic.The part of conclusion mainly elaborated the train of research thought in the article,as well as the research direction and method which being amended unceasingly during the article came into being,and thought that the research on esthetic characteristic of fictions should be breakthrough point to research direction of fictions in pre-Tang period.