文化符号、主体性、实在性:论“物”的三种叙事功能  

Cultural Signs, Agency, and Realism: Three Roles Things Play in Fictional Narratives

作　　者：尹晓霞[1] 唐伟胜[2] YIN Xiaoxia;TANG Weisheng(School of Foreign Studies, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China;English Faculty, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou 510420, China)

机构地区：[1]华南农业大学外国语学院,广东广州510642 [2]广东外语外贸大学英文学院,广东广州510420

出　　处：《山东外语教学》2019年第2期76-84,共9页Shandong Foreign Language Teaching

基　　金：国家社科基金2018年度一般项目“物叙事理论建构与批评实践研究”(项目编号:18BWW003)阶段研究成果

摘　　要：当前人文研究领域出现了一个明显的“物转向”或“非人转向”,即将研究视角投向以往很大程度上被忽略的“物”成分,包括动物、植物、矿物、生态系统、风景、地方等。对文学叙事而言,“物”可能承担以下三种叙事功能:(1)作为文化符号,映射或影响人类文化;(2)作为具有主体性的行动者,作用于人物的行动,并推动叙事进程;(3)作为本体存在,超越人类语言和文化的表征,显示“本体的物性”。在文学叙事中,“物”的这三个功能可以独立发挥作用,也可以组合发挥作用,取决于作者不同的修辞意图。There has been an obvious “turn” to things or nonhumans in contemporary narrative studies, that is, a turn to “things” that have been largely neglected in the past, including animals, plants, minerals, ecosystems, landscapes, places, etc. Basically, things can play three roles in fictional narratives: things that, as cultural signifiers, reflect (or influence) human culture,things that, as actors, affect the autions of characters and facilitate the narrative progression, and things that, as realities, that manifest their ontological materiality by transcending linguistic and cultural representations. These roles of things can work independently or in combination in fictional narratives, depending upon the writers’ rhetorical use of them.

关 键 词：物转向 文化的物 生命的物 本体的物 修辞意图 

分 类 号：I04[文学—文学理论]