阐释艺术的创新和挑战:申丹《短篇叙事小说的文体与修辞:显性情节后面的隐性进程》

Innovation and Challenge in the Craft of Interpretation:Dan Shen's Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction:Covert Progressions behind Overt Plots

申丹的新杰作《短篇叙事小说的文体与修辞:显性情节后面的隐性进程》从四个方面超出了其采用的形式主义和修辞学派的方法,提供了阐释叙事作品的一种新的框架,使我们得以挖掘情节后面的另一种叙事运动,看到作品更加复杂深刻和更为广阔的意义世界。与此同时,本书对现有批评方法提出了强有力的挑战,给叙事理论带来了新的活力,提出了许多很好的问题,给我们带来诸多启发。

Dan Shen's remarkable new study,Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction:Covert Progressions behind Overt Plots forms a departure from the formalist and rhetorical roots of her approach in four principal arguments.It provides a new interpretive frame,enabling us to explore another narrative movement behind the plot development and thus to comprehend a larger world of meaning that is more complex and profound.Apart from being innovative,the book itself will invigorate narrative theory.It presents a forceful challenge to existing criticism,raising many good questions and being thought-provoking in various ways.