论詹姆斯的现代主义小说观

James's Modernist Concept of Fiction

亨利.詹姆斯是现代英语小说理论的奠基人。四十多年的创作实践和文学批评使他将先前零敲碎打的英国小说批评提高到了一个新的层次,并成功地构建了一个较为完整和相对可靠的理论体系。本文旨在全面阐述詹姆斯的现代主义小说观。文章通过对詹姆斯重要文论以及前期与后期两部代表作的考察,探讨他有关形式与内容、心理探索、人物的载体作用和视角艺术等理论,以揭示其小说观的独特内涵和创新精神。

Henry James is the founder of the theory of modern English fiction. More than forty years of his writing and literary criticism enabled him to bring the previously fragmentary criticism of English fiction to a new and higher level, and successfully build up a fairly comprehensive and relatively reliable theoretical system. This paper aims to discuss James＇ s modernist concept of fiction. By examining his important critical essays and two masterpieces of his early and later period, the paper expounds his theories concerning form and content, psychological exploration, the conveying function of character and the art of point of view, in order to demonstrate the originality and creativity of his fictional concept.