后现代主义浪漫传奇文本与当代学术界的荒诞景观

英国当代著名作家戴维.洛奇集文论家与小说家于一身,在其重要作品《小世界》中,用后现代主义元小说叙事建构了一个后现代主义浪漫传奇文本。小说文本由"谈这部小说如何成为小说的小说"和"类文本元小说"构成,使关于传统人文批评、解构主义、读者接受理论、西方马克思主义、女权主义、文学本体论等的批评理论探讨转变成小说叙事艺术。同时,作者使用互文手法将高雅的专业知识阐释与表现当代学术界荒诞景观的通俗故事情节并置,讽刺性地质疑文学研究的目的和公共学术批评机构的性质。

A Text of Postmodernist Romance and Absurd Sight of Contemporary Academia

In his important novel Small World,David Lodge,English famous contemporary writer who is both literary critic and novelist,constructs a text of postmodernist romance by using postmodernist metafictional narrative.The text is formed with "the fiction that talks about how this fiction becomes fiction" and "the metafiction similar to the text of fiction," which changes the theoretical discussion about traditional humanist criticism,deconstruction,readers’ reception theory,western Marxism,feminism,literary ontology,etc.into art of fictional narrative,and in which the writer,by using intertextual techniques,juxtaposes the refined explanation of specialty knowledge with the popular story plots about the absurd sight of contemporary academia,satirically questioning the purpose of literary studies and the nature of common institutions of academic criticism itself.