Verse Performance and Textual Absorption: Literary Form Integration and Construction for Huaben Stories of the Song and Yuan Dynasties  

作　　者：YE Chuyan 

机构地区：[1]School of Liberal Arts,Minzu University of China,Beijing 100081,China

出　　处：《Frontiers of Literary Studies in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities》2024年第4期455-475,共21页中国高等学校学术文摘·文学研究(英文版)

基　　金：This article is a phased achievement of the project“Textual ldentification and Literary Form Construction of Traditional Chinese Vernacular Fictions”(22FZWB104)funded by the National Social Science Fund of China.

摘　　要：The huaben话本stories of the Song and Yuan dynasties contain a huge amount of verse performances.Ifju集句provides an organized form for connecting verses of different origins to construct a complete verse performance,a story can also perform this function.Following this vein,it is possible to get a clearer idea about the relationship between ruhua人话and touhui头回:Ruhua is a non-narrative introduction,while touhui is a narrative introduction,and touhui is derived from ruhua.Fundamentally,the evolution from the non-narrative ruhua to the narrative touhui is driven by fully expanding the explanations of the introductory verse(s).From the perspective of verse narration,latent characters and pseudo-characters are common in verse performances.An important function for them is to stitch the verses together and present them to the audience rather than tell stories.Verse performances initially come from other forms of folk arts and are finally absorbed by and integrated into huaben stories.During this process,huaben stories gradually establish a more delicate literary form feature in terms of verse narration.

关 键 词：verse performance huaben stories textual absorption literary form integration 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]