在长篇小说中，情节占据着重要位置，编织情节是一项极具挑战性的创作技巧。精巧的情节构思令人过目不忘。叶兆言的长篇小说具有很强的可读性，归根结底在于他从我国传统叙事理论中汲取营养，又糅合了现代叙事技巧，做到了文本的雅俗共赏。本文以叶兆言13本长篇小说为研究对象，探讨叶兆言长篇小说中几种主要的情节模式，以此进入文本的内部，解开叶兆言长篇小说情节编织的奥秘。

    本文分为三章。第一章讨论叶兆言长篇小说的“成长”模式，从其长篇小说的人物关系搭建和情节设计两方面进行分析。叶兆言在人物塑造时用场景或者事件将其关联，为文本叙事展开提供开阔的领域，通过设置困境让情节序列呈螺旋式上升和下降两种态势，并以社会运动勾连人物的成长。第二章着眼于分析叶兆言长篇小说中的“多角恋爱”模式，叶兆言在继承经典的“三角”恋爱情节模式的基础上，进行创造，发展为“一女多男”模式、“一男多女”模式、“追逐”模式等三种情节模式。通过这几类情节模式，叶兆言在文本中讨论爱与人性，创作了众多生动的人物形象。第三章分析叶兆言长篇小说中的“传奇人生”模式。叶兆言将人物设置在南京与近现代中国历史这样特定的时空之中，书写小人物与“名门之后”的传奇经历。

    本文在对叶兆言长篇小说的情节模式进行研究的过程中，肯定了叶兆言在情节编织层面的技法，也将叶兆言与余华、苏童等作家进行比较，指出叶兆言长篇小说深广的艺术魅力及叶兆言创作上的独特之处。

In a novel, the plot occupies an important position, and it is a very challenging creative skill. The exquisite plot concept is unforgettable. Ye Zhaoyan's novels are also highly readable. In the final analysis, he absorbs nutrition from traditional Chinese narratives and combines modern narrative techniques to make the text appealing to both refined and popular tastes. This article takes Ye Zhaoyan's 13 novels as the research object, and discusses several main plot patterns in Ye Zhaoyan's novels, so as to enter the text and unravel the mystery of the plot weaving in Ye Zhaoyan's novels.

This article is divided into three chapters. The first chapter discusses the "growth" mode of Ye Zhaoyan's novels, and analyzes from two aspects of character relationship construction and plot design in his novels. Ye Zhaoyan connects characters with scenes or events to provide a broad field for the development of text narratives. By setting up dilemmas, the plot sequence becomes a spiral upward and downward trend, and connects the growth of characters with social movements. The second chapter focuses on the analysis of the "polyangular love" mode in Ye Zhaoyan's novels. Ye Zhaoyan created on the basis of inheriting the classic "triangular" love plot mode, and developed into the mode of "one woman and many men" and "one man and multiple women". Mode, "chase" three plot modes. Through these types of plot modes, Ye Zhaoyan discusses love and human nature in the text, and creates many vivid characters. The third chapter analyzes the "legendary life" mode in Ye Zhaoyan's novels. Ye Zhaoyan sets the characters in a specific time and space such as Nanjing and modern Chinese history, and writes about the legendary experiences of little people and "after the famous family".

In the process of studying the plot mode of Ye Zhaoyan's novels, this paper affirms Ye Zhaoyan's plot weaving techniques, compares Ye Zhaoyan with Yu Hua, Su Tong and other writers, and points out that Ye Zhaoyan's creation is different from other writers and needs to be improved place.