“你的两面派观点”:伊恩·麦克尤恩的《赎罪》和《甜牙》中假性聚焦的延迟揭露

IF 0.6 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-04-23 DOI:10.1177/09639470211009734

Naomi Adam

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本文以认知诗学和可能世界理论为框架，探讨了英国后现代主义作家伊恩·麦克尤恩的两部21世纪小说。基于Ryan(1991)对文学理论的开创性概念化，并将小说作为案例研究，可能世界理论被用来解释文本中独特和不稳定的文体效果，这导致了“双重观点”和读者的迷失方向。针对麦克尤恩的文体偏差文本，本文认为有必要对现有的理论框架进行修订。最重要的是，引入了假设文本可能世界和(总)框架重新调整的概念。此外，神经精神病学研究被应用于小说，突出了在叙事聚焦研究中跨学科重叠的潜力。本文的结论是，这两部小说的主题和结构的双重性是通过巧妙地使用假设的聚焦和假设的文本可能世界来实现的。

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‘Your duplicitous point of view’: Delayed revelations of hypothetical focalisation in Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Sweet Tooth

Framed by cognitive-poetic and possible worlds theories, this article explores two 21st century novels by the British postmodernist author Ian McEwan. Building upon Ryan’s (1991) seminal conceptualisation of the theory in relation to literature and using the novels as case studies, possible worlds theory is used to explain the unique and destabilising stylistic effects at play in the texts, which result in a ‘duplicitous point of view’ and consequent disorientation for the reader. With reference to the stylistically deviant texts of McEwan, it is argued that revisions to current theoretical frameworks are warranted. Most significantly, the concepts of suppositious text-possible worlds and (total) frame readjustment are introduced. Further to this, neuropsychiatric research is applied to the novels, highlighting the potential for interdisciplinary overlap in the study of narrative focalisation. It is concluded that the duplicity integral to both novels’ themes and texture is effected through artful use of hypothetical focalisation and suppositious text-possible worlds.

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Language and Literature Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Language and Literature is an invaluable international peer-reviewed journal that covers the latest research in stylistics, defined as the study of style in literary and non-literary language. We publish theoretical, empirical and experimental research that aims to make a contribution to our understanding of style and its effects on readers. Topics covered by the journal include (but are not limited to) the following: the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, cognitive approaches to text comprehension, corpus and computational stylistics, the stylistic investigation of multimodal texts, pedagogical stylistics, the reading process, software development for stylistics, and real-world applications for stylistic analysis. We welcome articles that investigate the relationship between stylistics and other areas of linguistics, such as text linguistics, sociolinguistics and translation studies. We also encourage interdisciplinary submissions that explore the connections between stylistics and such cognate subjects and disciplines as psychology, literary studies, narratology, computer science and neuroscience. Language and Literature is essential reading for academics, teachers and students working in stylistics and related areas of language and literary studies.