The Immature Revolt of Henry Fielding toward Neo-Classicism

Henry Fielding,incontrovertibly praised as " the father of English novels,deserves another recognition,much more significantly,the first theorist on the obit of English novel with the theory of " comic epic poem in prose" as an attempt to revolt against new-classicism.This attempt,despite its revolutionary and bold flavor,is immature and incomplete,which is bound to be attributed to the general context of neo-classicism against which Fielding vigorously averted but inevitably leaned.

亨利·菲尔丁与亚里士多德:继承与发展

亨利·菲尔丁的现实主义理论立足于亚里士多德的艺术模仿现实的传统,他的现实主义小说中已经出现历史小说的萌芽。此外,在亚里士多德关于戏剧和史诗的论述基础上,菲尔丁定义了新体裁——散文喜剧史诗,认为喜剧史诗可以用散文写,喜剧的描写对象是虚荣和虚伪。菲尔丁对现实主义传统的发展主要体现在叙事理论方面,他采用全知全能的叙述者,运用时间的叙事和空间的叙事,这些都影响了后世小说家的创作和叙事理论的发展。菲尔丁的小说理论诞生于现代性开端的18世纪,在西方文论发展史上起到承上启下的重要作用。