《山中十日》修辞技巧的历史文化意蕴

Cultural Implications of the Rhetorical Strategies in Ten Days in the Hill

修辞叙事学家和文化叙事学家受巴赫金的对话理论和文化研究的影响,把叙事看成是一种修辞形式和文化活动,他们不仅关注小说家在特定的历史文化语境中如何利用各种叙事方法来达到最佳修辞效果,还特别强调作者、叙述者、人物、读者在文化交流上不同声音的融合。美国当代女小说家珍妮.斯梅蕾的最新之作《山中十日》从叙事视角、叙事线条、叙事话语等修辞技巧上,独具匠心地融现实主义、现代主义和后现代主义为一体,反映了后现代商品文化社会里,人类虚无的存在状态,为修辞叙事学和文化叙事学提供了一个很好的阐释文本。

Influenced by Bakhtin＇s dialogism and cultural studies,rhetorical and cultural narratologists consider narrative as an active force of rhetoric and culture.They not only concern themselves with the rhetorical effects of the multiple narrative devices employed by the novelist in a given historical and cultural context,but also highlight the medley of voices from the author,narrator,character and reader engaged in cultural communications.Ten Days in the Hill,the recent work by the contemporary American woman novelist Jane Smiley,provides a particular case for testing the usefulness of rhetorical and cultural narratology in that it synthesizes the narrative perspectives,lines and discourses of realism,modernism and post-modernism to the effect of the existential nihility of man in the post-modern commercial culture.