非自然叙事学新动态与当代文学批评:布赖恩·理查森教授访谈录（英文）

The New Model of Unnatural Narratology and Contemporary Literary Criticism:An Interview with Professor Brian Richardson

布赖恩·理查森,美国马里兰大学英语系教授,前国际叙事学学会和美国约瑟夫·康拉德学会主席,非自然叙事学的创始人,是20世纪文学、现代戏剧诗学和叙事学研究的领军学者,他著述丰厚,最新著作是2015年出版的《非自然叙事:理论,历史与实践》。2016年12月,本文作者受《外国文学研究》的委托,在马里兰大学英语系访学期间对理查森教授进行了面对面的访谈。本访谈主要就非自然叙事学的发展新动态这一问题采访了理查森教授。访谈在详细阐述非自然叙事学相关核心概念和基本术语之后,还论述非自然叙事学与当代文学批评的关系,尤其是探讨非自然叙事学对文学在伦理、政治和意识形态诉求中的作用;最后访谈还展望后现代主义之后的文学批评,探讨未来非自然叙事学的发展态势和方向。

Brian Richardson is Professor of English at University of Maryland, the former president of both the International Society for the Study of Narrative and the Joseph Conrad Society of America, and founder of unnatural narratology. He is a major scholar in the fields of twentieth century literature, poetics of modern drama and narrative theory, and his most recent book is Unnatural Narrative： Theory, History, and Practice （2015）. In December 2016, Ph.D. candidate of Huazhong University of Science and Technology Li Minrui, a visiting scholar at University of Maryland from Huazhong Agricultural University, China, entrusted by Foreign Literature Studies, interviewed Professor Richardson face to face. This interview centers chiefly on the new model of unnatural narratology and its new trend. After illustrating the pertinent core concepts and basic terms on unnatural narratology, the interview also involves the relations between the unnatural narratology and contemporary literary criticism, in particular, the roles the unnatural narratology plays in pursuit of ethical, political and ideological concerns. In the end, the interview looks forward to the situation of literary criticism after postmodemism, and meanwhile explores the prospective development of unnatural narratology in the future.