多模态认知诗学视域下的后现代绘本叙事——以《臭起司小子爆笑故事大集合》为例

A Multimodal Cognitive Poetic Study of a Postmodern Picturebook:Taking The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales as a Case

本文采用多模态认知诗学视角,以《臭起司小子爆笑故事大集合》为例,分析后现代绘本后现代性特征的认知生成机制。实例分析表明,后现代性的生成机制是多模态多维图式颠覆,主要认知路径为反常规主—客倒置式识解。其具体体现为三个层面的元策略:图书设计层的元图书制作、故事讲述层的元叙事、故事发生层的元互文。后现代绘本充分发挥多模态符号资源优势,指引读者颠倒主客观识解方式、立体叠加亚世界层级、涉身穿越文本世界与语篇世界之间的边界,创造新奇的反常规阅读体验。以图像为主的绘本更适宜传达后现代特征,呈现元小说的样态,调动读者的视觉感知和涉身认知,完成自我指涉,彰显图书的加工性、故事的虚构性及意义的开放性,因此,更适宜于传达和塑造后现代意识形态。多模态认知诗学为我们提供了一个新的研究视角,提升我们对后现代儿童文学的认识和理解。

From the perspective of multimodal cognitive poetics,this paper explores the cognitive mechanisms for the postmodernity of postmodern picturebook by taking The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales as a case.It shows that the primary mechanism for its postmodernity is schematic subversions,multimodally mediated,of which unconventional subject-object subverted construal is the predominant cognitive path.In the case study,the subversion is embodied by three meta-strategies:meta-bookmaking,meta-narrating,meta-intertextuality respectively at three levels,book design,narration and story.Making full use of multimodal resources,in particular,the dynamic interplay of visual-verbal representations,postmodern picturebooks play with readers'existing story schema at multiple dimensions,triggering uncommon reading experience,by means of subverting conventional construal,embedding a multiple of subtext worlds,embodied transgressing borders between text and discourse world.More reliance on pictorial representations renders picturebook's privilege in showing postmodernity and metafictionality in that readers'perceptual and embodied cognition are jointly called on to experience its self-referentiality,fictionality and openness of meanings,accounting for its important role in shaping postmodern ideology such as rebellious and challenging mindset.Multimodal cognitive poetics provide a new approach to postmodern children literature.