凯南和柯里的"叙述者"理论比较

凯南与柯里都注重作为叙述者的作者在故事叙述中的重要地位,二人都从布斯的理论出发论述叙述者问题。凯南认为叙述者是叙述交流的构成要素,并分析了它的不同层次;柯里提出叙事者是控制者的观点,并通过身份、叙述视角技巧的分析论证了自己的理论。这是他们的相同面。二人的不同面是:凯南的结构主义叙事学是以故事为中心,把作为叙事者的人放在文本结构中来阐释;柯里的后现代主义叙事学则突出了作为叙事者的人,认为人是叙事动物,人是叙事的讲述者和阐释者。

Rimmon-Kenan and Mark Currie:A Comparative Study of Their Theories of Narrators

Kenan takes 'narrator'as the element of the narrative communication and classifies the narrative levels according to the narrator's participation in the story;while Currie proposes thesis that'narrator'is an operator and tries to testify it through the analysis of identities and point of view of the narrator.The differences between the two is that: Kenan's structurist narrative theory takes story as the central issue of the narration,by which the person who tells the story is often studied within the textual structure;while in Currie's postmodern narrative theory,the person as the'narrator'is emphasized,by which the narrative subject is studied from the point of view human natures because it is the human creature who makes the narration and interpretation.