叙事的动力学:论身体叙事学视野中的欲望身体

A Corporeal Narratologist Approach to the Body that Desires

身体叙事学研究身体在叙事中的作用与意义。由于欲望的驱使,现代的小说与绘画等艺术形式中推动叙事展开的动力是身体,叙事的过程就是某种身体的符号化过程。我们所理解的身体是与世界进行密切交流的肉身性情境存在,身体欲望是肉身情境化的主要表征。身体欲望在使故事情节获得动力的同时,身体与其情境的关系及身体的言行也赋予了故事以意义。对读者来说,理解故事就是设身处地理解人物的身体处境。因此可以认为,情境化的身体为读者指明了解读故事的方向,奠定了解读与批评的基础。

Corporeal narratology studies the function and meaning of the body in the act of narration. Since the narrative impetus of modern fiction and fine arts is the body that desires, the process of narration therefore becomes the semioticization of the body, or the situational embodiment of being communicating with the world, the main representa-tion of which is desire. In a given text, the relationship between the（narrating？） body and its situation gives meaning to narrative events, thereby endowing the text with a unified, coherent significance.