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This book focuses on a cutting-edge field of narrative research: comparative narratology. It is a certain turn in the development of disciplines and academic research, and it is also a new direction presented by the organic grafting of comparative literature and narratology. This book strives to conduct a comprehensive study of comparative narratology as a whole, tracking and sorting out the origin and development of comparative narratology from the perspective of academic history; theoretically elaborating on the disciplinary foundation of comparative narratology and its necessity, feasibility, value and significance; in practice, it selects some important issues related to comparative narratology research, such as time and narrative time, spatiotemporal relationship and spatial narrative, narrative and focus, etc., And combines a large number of Chinese and foreign ancient and modern narrative works to carry out analysis and discussion in the sense of combining theory and textual practice. The purpose is to provide a more complete and systematic description and interpretation of the subject of comparative narratology, provide a basic grasp of the orientation of this subject, and promote more fruitful research in this field.

Since the new century, narrative research at home and abroad has shown a diversified development situation, with some eye-catching developments and changes in research objects, research scope, and research paradigms. This book covers the author's latest concerns in narratology research in recent years, including discussions on aesthetic cultural narratology, comparative narratology, poetic narratology, etc. Relevant discussions strive to carry out cross-research, comparative research, cross-genre and cross-disciplinary research in different disciplines under the multiple perspectives of narratology, and conduct theoretical discussions based on textual practice, in order to provide a reasonable explanation of the discussed issues based on the combination of theory and practice.