“隐性进程”与界面研究:挑战和机遇

“Covert Progression”and Interface Studies:Challenge and Opportunity

长期以来,在虚构叙事这一研究领域,叙事学和文体学等界面研究一直围绕情节发展展开。但在不少虚构叙事作品中,存在双重叙事动力:在情节发展后面,还存在一股贯穿作品的隐性叙事进程。无论文体分析多么细致,也无论叙事分析多么全面,倘若聚焦于情节发展和对情节发展的文字或话语表达,就无法发现情节后面那股并行的叙事暗流,也就难以对相关文本成分的修辞目的、主题意义和审美价值作出恰当的阐释。

Ever since their birth, the interface approaches of narratology and stylistics have focused on the plot development and/or its verbal or discoursal presentation in literary narratives. But in many fictional narratives, behind the plot development, there exists a covert progression, forming an implicit dynamic behind the explicit. In those narratives marked by dual narrative dynamics, no matter how detailed the stylistic analysis is and no matter how comprehensive the narratological analysis is, so long as attention centers on the plot development, the analysis cannot offer an adequate account of the rhetorical design, thematic significance, and aesthetic value of the narrative.