后经典视域下的文化修辞叙事学:以爱伦·坡的《丽姬娅》为例

Toward a Cultural Rhetorical Model of Narrative Theory:A Case Study of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Ligeia”

在叙事学从经典向后经典转型的过程中,修辞叙事学家们不再只关注文本,而是逐渐将修辞要素的一些社会历史特征纳入了考察范围。然而,这些有限的转变不足以让我们深刻了解社会文化历史语境对修辞交流行为的影响。笔者因此提出“文化修辞叙事学”的概念,主张将叙事作品视为一种文化产物,在更广阔的社会历史背景下考察作者、读者、目的、情境、内容等修辞要素,从而更深入地挖掘叙事作品与社会历史文化之间的丰富联系。笔者以《丽姬娅》为例,讨论其审美特征与19世纪初的美国文学市场环境之间的联系,以此展示“文化修辞学”在实际分析中的作用及价值.

As narratology moves from a classical to a postclassical period,rhetorical theorists of narrative cease to focus exclusively on n arrative per se,and begin to pay in creasing attention to the cultural and historical dimensions of narrative communication.However,the modestly adjusted rhetorical model still prevents us from uncovering the multifarious connections between literary texts and their contexts.I thus propose in this essay a cultural rhetorical model of narrative theory,which regards narrative as a cultural production and studies its various communicative features in broad sociocultural contexts.I also use Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia"as a case study,analyzing its aesthetic design in connection with conditions of the literary marketplace in the early nineteenth century,in an attempt to demonstrate the validity and value of the approach in literary interpretations.