网络小说在叙事上表现出有别于传统体制文学的青春性。网络小说在主体方面的青春性主要表现为网络写手与网络读者的年轻化;在小说文本方面的青春性主要表现为:在题材方面突出表现爱情题材的盛行以及校园暴力题材的书写,在主题方面表现为"成长"主题的盛行,在小说文类上则表现为网络尚虚类小说与网络耽美小说等小说类型的出现。而网络小说意识形态的青春性,既表现在审美意识形态立场的超越性与包容性,又表现为政治意识形态的不确定性。
Cyber-fictions have a very short history, and in narrative they are characterized in youthorientedness, much different from existing literary tradition. The participants of cyber- fictions,including their writers and readers, are mostly young people. They are also youth-oriented in texts,as shown in the prevalent subjects of love romance and campus violences, the prevalent theme of novel-of-initiation, and the emergent genres of fictionality-foregrounding novels and aesthetic-indulging novels. The youth-orientedness of those fictions is characterized in the inclusiveness of aesthetic ideology and the uncertainty of their political ideology. All those sharply characterize cyber-fictions a historically youngtype.