The Narrative Function Research Of Dictionary Novel

Dictionary novel firstly establishes the advantages on the aesthetic with its novelty form, and then it enriches the content with its because of the encyclopedic writing. The work of Milorad Pavi---Dictionary of the Khazars opens this field and the author tells the history of Khazars with his magnificent imagination and vast mind vision. After this novel, various types of dictionary novels come in a continuous stream from home and abroad. The most domestic representative novel is Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shaogong, it is the highlight in the history of Chinese contemporary novels and the author makes profound and slight description about the regional culture referred in the novel. And this paper mainly involves the other two representative works Milosz’s ABC and See Under:Love respectively shows the richness of personal memories and the sublime of involution love. A nation, a region, a kind of culture and even a person and so on, all of them are similar to the fragmentation discourse and reflect in the dictionary novels. The value of the dictionary is to put itself into the post-modern circumstances to carry on an objective presenting narration of "overestimating the matters and underestimating the reasons". This paper makes relative research from the angle of narrative function about the dictionary novel.In the introduction part, firstly discussing and summarizing the connotation of dictionary novel and then making respective research review about the four typical novels involved in the paper from the domestic and overseas aspects.The first part mainly analyses the formative factors of dictionary novel. When the wind of modernism and postmodernism has been blowed to us and when the spread of various "post-" literary theories with the rich connotation, dictionary novel is also born at the right moment associated with the trend of the blending and collision of them. The narrative fragmentation of main body and the changing of standard and concept are also the necessary factors; Meanwhile, the demands of the author’s personal desires, the appearance of subjective consciousness, the dissolution and permeability of culture as well as the transfer of discourse power play an important role in the dictionary novel.The second part primarily discusses the narrative characteristics of the dictionary novel. Compared with the former traditional novels, the perspective, characters and plots of dictionary novel have been made new changes. Subsequently, the other two features are the particular characteristic of dictionary novel, including the sequence problem and the de-familiarization and fragmentation under the circumstance of the postmodernism which reflect its unique style and elegant demeanour.The space-time characteristics are mainly discussed in the third part. Taking the specific texts as the analyzing main body to expound this part. Dictionary novel takes time as the specific thing and at the same time to make space as the narrative generality of it. And thus to enrich the narrative charm of dictionary novel.The conclusion part mainly discusses the significance and the value of dictionary novel from the angle of history and memory. Under the historical grand narration, dictionary novel conducts a kind of "text cluster" writing and goes through the process of extension and lasting from memory, collective memory to history, further to highlight the significance and value of dictionary novel.For the epilogue part, put forward the viewpoint, dictionary novel---for matters and containing reasons.