目 录 摘 要······························································································ III Abstract···························································································· III INTRODUCTION 1 The Brief Introduction of V. S. Naipaul and His Work A Bend in the River 1 Literature Review 3 Overview of Thesis 6 CHAPTER ONE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE SPATIAL NARRATIVE THEORY 9 The Rise and Development of Spatial Narrative Theory 9 Joseph Frank‘s Space Narrative Theories 11 Repeat Narrative 12 Multiple Narrative 13 Juxtaposition 14 CHAPTER TWO THE SPACE EXPRESSION AND THE SPACE FUNCTION OF REPETITIVE NARRATION IN A BEND IN THE RIVER 20 The Repetitive Narration and Its Space Function 20 The Space Expression and the Space Function of the Water Hyacinth 23 The First Expression of the Water Hyacinth and the Space Function 23 The Expression after the Reconstruction and the Space Function 25 The Expression in the Domain and the Space Function 27 The Last Expression and the Space Function 28 The Space Expression and the Space Function of the Rapids and the Jungle 29 The First Expression of the Rapids and the Jungle and the Space Function 30 The Rapids and the Jungle in the End and the Space Function 31 CHAPTER THREE THE SPACE EXPRESSION AND THE SPACE FUNCTION OF THE POLY-FORM NARRATION IN A BEND IN THE RIVER 33 The Multiple Narrative Perspectives and the Space Function 33 The Space Expression and the Space Function of the Perfect-Focus 33 The Space Function of the First-Person Internal Point of View 36 The Space Function of the First-Person External Point of View 38 The Space Expression and the Space Function of the Multiple Texts 40 The Multiple Texts and the Space Function 41 bination of the Biography and the Imaginary Fiction and the Space Function 43 bination of the Historical Narration and the Imaginary Fiction and the Space function 45 The Space Function of Other Literary Forms 47 CHAPTER FOUR THE JUXTAPOSI