A Study On Narrative Art Of The Drunk-waking Stone

As an excellent collection of fictions in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties,The Drunkwaking Stone consists of 15 chapters with concise prose and rich characters,showing the readers various folk customs and worldly wisdom of the Ming generation.It also has its advantages in narrative art,which brings a new perspective to the interpretation of the novel by analyzing the internal structure of the perspective of narratology.Firstly,the author inherits the predecessors narrative tradition and consciously maintains the Confucian orthodoxy in the creation process,in order to use the novel to intervene the reality and awaken the people,so as to achieve the purpose of good morals.Consciously use the "speak" narrator for themselves,or organization story,or communicate with readers,or to publish a comment,story characters and behavior of the novel by the strength of the sound different degree of intervention,and presents the author behind the subject status and narrative position and the function of the novel "writing carry doctrine" on implementation.Secondly,in terms of expression,the novel choose a narrative perspectives: first,the omniscient perspective,which is deeply influenced by the historical narrative mode,it describes the social life extensively and carefully,and takes care of the characters and plots of the story as a whole.It not only shows its authority,but also includes moral admonitions to readers;Second,with the combination of limited perspective into the role,also strengthen the authenticity and reliability for the story.Coincide with the narrative perspective,the story present a linear process of development at narrative sequence,and adopting Syria to artistic processing for the local narratives,which effectively avoid the plot tell in a simple.At the same time using the overview,scene from the alternate type such as conversion,present a narrative time in faster time velocity discontinuity and flexibility.In terms of narrative structure,the novel inherits the narrative system of "three words" and "two strokes",and integrates the plot structure with the stylized pattern of karma,reflecting the inheritance of traditional narrative logic.Finally,in the presentation of the language style of the novel,it shows the overall elegant characteristics,followed by vulgar spoken language,which brings life to the story.Generally speaking,the narrative art of The Drunk-waking Stone restores the narrative style of ancient Chinese vernacular novels,but also leads to the simplification of the narrative of characters in the novel and the lack of profound appeal due to the author’s strong intention of moral preaching,which is regret.