历史编纂元小说--后现代主义小说新方向?

在对后现代主义理论及文学创作的讨论中,加拿大著名文学理论家林达.哈琴提出了“历史编纂元小说”的概念,以此指称20世纪六七十年代以来欧美文坛涌现的一股将后现代主义实验性创作与历史及社会语境相联结的创作潮流。她认为,作为后现代主义元小说的新发展,历史编纂元小说反驳了伊格尔顿等人给后现代主义文学贴上的“缺乏深度”、“反历史”、“没有政治内容”等标签,但她将历史编纂元小说称作唯一一种圆满体现了后现代主义诗学的小说,是具有范例作用的后现代主义小说等观点值得商榷。

Historiographic Metafiction:The New Direction in Postmodernist Fiction?

In discussion on postmodernist theory and literature,Linda Hutcheon,the famous Canadian literary theorist suggested a new concept' Historiographic Metafiction' to refer to a new trend in European-American literary circle which linked postmodernist experimental writing to social-historical context since 1960.This thesis studies the new concept through its emergence as well as the developing process of postmodernist metafiction.It discriminates between Historiographic Metafiction and traditional historical novel,and generalizes the narrative strategies of Historiographic Metafiction.According to Hutcheon,as the new direction of postmodernist metafiction,Historiographic Metafiction refuted the negative remarks such as depthless,counter-historical,void of political content etc.,labelled on postmodernist literature by some critics including Terry Eagleton.While agreeing to the main opinions by Hutcheon,this thesis questions several of her assertions.