意象即叙事——评超文本小说《十二蓝》

Imagery as Narrative:On Michael Joyce's Hypertext Twelve Blue

在超文本文学创作里,纸质印刷强加于文学叙事的线性秩序荡然无存,超文本的叙事流取决于辞片(即电子页面)间看似随意却极具隐喻性的意象关联。在《十二蓝》中,蓝色调衍化而成的十二条命运之线时而交集,间或并行,统摄超文本叙事的是一条绵延的,向四方无限发散的意象之河。超文本小说的叙事由此超越了传统二维叙事,形成一种独特的立体网状的叙事结构。

In hypertext writing,traditional linear narration of the print literature is replaced by a set of seemingly excursive,yet particularly metaphorical and interrelated images flowing between hypertextual lexias.In Michael Joyce＇s Twelve Blue,with twelve blue threads of narration/destiny both interweaving and paralleling,the narration of the hypertext is governed by a flowing river of excursive images.Thus a three-dimensional,web-like narrative mode becomes established in hypertext narration,in replacement of the traditional two-dimensional narration.