非自然与非自然叙述理论:布莱恩·理查森教授访谈录（英文）

The Unnatural and Unnatural Narrative Theory:An Interview with Professor Brian Richardson

马里兰大学英文系教授布莱恩·理查森为后经典叙述学中最有影响的分支之一非自然叙述学的领军学者,曾担任国际叙述研究学会(2009-2012)和美国约瑟夫·康拉德学会(2006-2012)的副会长和会长。著作有《不可能的故事:因果性和现代叙述的本质》(1997)、《非自然声音:现当代小说中的极端叙述》(2006,获得珀金斯叙述研究最佳图书奖)以及《非自然叙述:理论,历史与实践》(2015)、《叙述理论:核心概念与批评性争论》(2012,合著,《选择》杂志2012年“杰出学术著作”)等,编辑《非自然诗学》(2013,合编)等选集。理查森教授研究兴趣集中在叙述理论、后现代小说、国际性现代主义以及小说史。在这篇访谈中,理查森教授重申他对非自然叙述理论的看法,解释非自然叙述研究团体中成员之间的差异,并对非自然叙述受到的批评和误解进行了回应。他还介绍了正在进行的研究,并对非自然叙述理论的进一步发展提出了建议。

Brian Richardson, a professor in the English department of the University of Maryland,is the leading scholar of Unnatural Narratology, which is one of the most influential branches of postclassical Narratology. He has served as the Vice President and President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative(2009-2012) as well as the Vice President and President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America(2006-2012). He is the author of Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative(1997), Unnatural Voices:Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction(2006, the 2006 Perkins Prize winner for the best book in narrative studies) and Unnatural Narrative: Theory, History, and Practice(2015). He also coauthored Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates(2012, "Outstanding academic title" for 2012 by Choice) and edited and coedited several anthologies, including A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative(2013, with Jan Alber and Henrik Skov Nielsen). Prof. Richardson’s primary fields of interest are narrative theory, postmodern fiction,international modernism, and the history of the novel. In this interview,Prof. Richardson reiterates his ideas on unnatural narrative theory,explains the differences among members of unnatural narrative group,and responds to criticism and misunderstanding of unnatural narrative theory. He also introduces his present work and puts forward some suggestions for the further development of unnatural narrative theory.