非自然叙事理论

Unnatural Narrative Theory

本文旨在阐释和廓清非自然叙事理论的基本情况,确定非自然的核心策略和影响。本文将非自然或反模仿元素与模仿或非模仿元素进行区别,并且阐释非自然元素对特定叙事文本的影响,指出现有叙事理论存在的局限性,并提供一些超越这些局限性的方法。追溯其主要概念和术语的历史和发展,阐释非自然叙事理论的基本模式之后,本文继续对非自然叙事自身的历史、体裁和意识形态的关联进行评述,澄清在非自然叙述学家之间存在的一些常见的误解,指出他们所运用的不同概念。然后,本文将讨论非自然叙事的主要贡献,阐明其当前的发展进程并推测其未来的发展。

The article explains and outlines the basic aspects of unnatural narrative,identifying central strategies and effects of the unnatural.It differentiates unnatural or antimimetic elements from mimetic and nonmimetic ones and notes the differing effects that unnatural elements can have on a given narrative.It notes some limitations of existing narratological theory and offers methods for transcending those limitations.After tracing out the history and development of key concepts and terms and explaining the basic model of unnatural narrative theory,this target essay goes on to provide an overview of the history,genres,and ideological associations of unnatural narratives themselves,clarify some common misunderstandings,and point out some differing conceptions among unnatural narratologists.It then discusses the major contributions of unnatural narrative studies,notes current advances in the field,and speculates on future developments.