History And Fiction

Historical narrative and literary narrative are the two most basic forms of narrative. Both in terms of the West or in China, it seems that there has been a tangled relationship. From early human history, the history of mankind's earliest history or literature that is in the form of myths. With the passage of time, history and literature of the separation occurred. However, it seems that people's awareness of it has always been ambiguous. On the one hand, there are in China " regardless of family history" traditional, but the compilation of the history books yet to open part of the Department and the son; historians both in the West, "a factual respect" the traditional, but the same as historical narrative of the new literary fiction historical point of view.Current academic research on the relationship between the two is also more concentrated in the "Literature of the spread of research level, the concern is more the history of literary narrative, of course, allows us to avoid the historical discourse of a blindly trust. However, not all of the narrative literature is narrative, historical narrative and literary narrative is based on a different story, after all, based on the narrative of two ways, the former is the history of the matter have taken place in the narrative, the history of the past, "representation" and Literature is the writer is more of a subjective creation, to some extent, is "to create a" story. Historical narrative and literary narrative, or the existence of this significant difference.In this paper, I would like to narrative and story, narrative time, the gap in terms of narrative to explore the differences between them. Because, after all, the history of the aesthetic elements of narrative is not the main purpose of the historian and tasks, In dealing with the issue of ideology also has a quite different literary, historical narrative of the aesthetic factor of only historian to the people again "historical reality", to express their own by-product of the ideological tendencies. And appear as a literary narrative in the discourse of aesthetic Yun by ideology and aesthetic expression is the first and the authenticity of the story itself is not the focus of a writer, they are concerned about is the story of its own expression in the aesthetic purpose of the combined .