梅尔维尔的《白鲸》是19世纪美国浪漫主义文学的巅峰之作。《剑桥英国文学史》称其为“全世界文学中最伟大的海洋传奇小说之一”。本文主要探讨《白鲸》的叙事艺术,《白鲸》在叙事结构上既有传统的线性结构,又因为“非叙事性话语”的加入,而具有现代派小说的特征。在叙事的时限与时距上,《白鲸》综合运用了省略、概要、等述等手法,使叙事时间呈现整体上的连贯性和局部的跳跃性。一、《白鲸》叙事结构的传统性与现代性 Melville’s “Moby Dick” is the culmination of nineteenth-century American romantic literature. The Cambridge History of British Literature calls it “one of the greatest marine legends in world literature.” This article mainly talks about the narrative art of Moby Dick, “Moby Dick” has the traditional linear structure in the narrative structure, but also has the characteristics of modernist fiction because of the addition of “non-narrative discourse”. In narrative time and space-time, “Moby Dick” comprehensively uses omissions, synopses, and other tactics to make the narrative time appear overall coherence and local leap. I. The Tradition and Modernity of the Narrative Structure of Moby Dick