As a kind of Speaking-Singing Literature, Tanci flourished during the Ming and the Qing Dynasty. Specially, Tanci of the Qing Dynasty differed greatly from other Novel and the drama in narrative perspective, narrative time and narrative structure. Research on the Character of Tanci Narratives doubtless has much benefit and help on understanding of characteristics and value of this special type of literature, as well as the similarities and differences between Tanci and other type of literature.This thesis consists of introduction, text and conclusion. Introduction introduces the research origin of this thesis, the production of former researcher, and the value and significance of this subject. The text includes four subsections. First subsection studies the character of angle of view Tanci Narratives of the Qing Dynasty. Such character was mainly carried out by the frequent appearance of omniscience relater, and partially limited point of view, which can build complete point of view. And complete point of view was mostly implemented by the flow and transform of limited point of view. The second subsection researches the narrative time of Tanci of the Qing Dynasty. To discuss the character of narrative time of Tanci from narrative time, the disorder and inversion of narrative time, and the control of narrative rhythm. Tanci often adopts flashback, flashforward, depiction of scene and pause to enrich the arrangement and slow down the rhythm of the story. The third subsection mainly discusses the narrative structure of Tanci of Qing Dynasty from beginning and multilineal structure. The major characters of Tanci of the Qing Dynasty are stylized beginning and vertically and horizontally interlaced structure. The fourth subsection probes into differences of the narrative characters of Tanci of the Qing Dynasty between Novel and drama. The conclusion part generalizes the main content of this thesis and reaches to a summing-up and point out the sense of the subject.Research on the Character of Tanci Narratives of the Qing Dynasty could penetratingly discover the special literary value of it. Only by understanding its unusual features and value, and connection with other types of literature can bestowal such specific type of literature fair-and-square estimation. |