本来无一物,何处惹尘埃?——对“隐含作者”的质疑

Questioning the Validity of the Implied Author

自从美国学者韦恩·布思提出"隐含作者"概念后,很快就在叙事理论界引起了极大反响,并为许多学者所接受。不过笔者认为"隐含作者"这一概念只是一个假说,而非科学定义。探究了该概念的起源及由此而产生的问题和争议,通过具体文本的实例分析证明"隐含作者"并不存在。认为这一概念无助于叙述文本的分析研究,应予以彻底放弃。

Since the American scholar Wayne C. Booth put forth the conception of the ＂implied author＂, it has soon caused great responses in the circle of narrative theory and is now widely accepted as true, though not without doubt. But the author of the present paper thinks the ＂implied author＂ is at most only a hypothesis, not yet a scientific definition. The paper traces the origin of the conception and its subsequent problems and controversies. It proves through many examples that the ＂implied author＂ does not exist and comes from nowhere, therefore this pseudo conception will not help in analysing the texts and should be cast away.