过渡与协调:十八世纪英国小说中的不可靠叙述

Transition and Coordination: Unreliable Narration in Eighteenth-Century English Fictions

18世纪英国小说中经常出现的不可靠叙述,与当时错综复杂的文化语境有密切的关系:尚未从"传奇""历史"中完全分离出来的小说文体,在新旧价值观念的混杂与小说功能定位的模糊中,表现出一种叙述形态的不可靠性。本文试图从三个层面分析这种不可靠叙述现象与转型期社会文化之间的交互影响,以此展开历史文化维度上的不可靠叙述研究。

The frequently used unreliable narration in eighteenth-century English fictions was closely related to the complex cultural context of that period. As a newly emerged narrative style, fiction has not separated itself from romance and history. The fusion of old and new values and the vague self-positioning of fiction jointly resulted in the unreliability in its narrative style. This paper analyzes the interactive influence between the phenomenon of narrative unreliability and the cultural restructuring in three dimensions, in order to explore unreliable narration from the perspectives of culture and history.