小说他律与叙事伦理

The Rise of the Novel and Narrative Ethics

叙事是人类基本的赋义行为和方式，小说叙事伴随着现代性的产生而出现，从而也表征现代社会人类的基本经验。这种经验一方面体现为小说作为文学叙事形式的自律追求，另一方面又不能摆脱与生俱来的文体和文化他律面相。这并非当代叙事理论建构的结果，而是事实与小说知识学内部的真实逻辑呈现。小说叙事的他律性表明，小说叙事在面对其他知识表征形式，尤其是伦理时，从来就不曾真正自律过，它以对话融合的姿态构成小说叙事伦理，这是当代文学理论和文学批评必须面对的新题域。

Narration is a basic human behavior and way of representing meaning. Along with the occuring of modernity the novel narrative appears, and it also represents the human beings＇ basic experience of a modem society. On the one hand, this kind of experience embodies the pursuance of autonomy that is the novel as a literary narrative form; on the other hand, it can ＇ t get rid of innate style and culture heteronomy faces. This is not the result of the contemporary narrative theory construction, but the real logic rendering of the facts and the internal fiction knowledge. The heteronomy of novel narrative shows that in the face of other forms of knowledge representation, especially ethics, the novel narrative is never really autonomy. It constitutes a novel narrative ethics with the attitude of dialogue fusion, and this is a new domain that a contemoorary literary theory and literary criticism have to face with.