《项狄传》叙事结构分析

《项狄传》的叙事结构是反复偏离中的顺利进展。小说中的离题话探讨了小说的形式和内容以及人类思维的内容、方式和表达习惯。《项狄传》解构了小说的开头和结尾存在的必然性,暗示了小说开头和结尾的不确定性,指出叙事作品的中部曲折复杂,并非直线推进的。希利斯·米勒的叙事线条理论有助于分析、解释《项狄传》的叙事结构。

An Analysis of the Narrative Structure of Tristram Shandy

The narrative structure of Tristram Shandy can best be summarized as progression within digressions. The numerous digressions in the novel are explorations into the form and content of a novel and into the content, mode and expression of human thinking. Tristram Shandy deconstructs the necessary presence of the beginning and ending of a novel, and suggests that while the beginning and ending of a narrative are never definite and that the middle part is complicated and far from being direct and straight. Hillis Miller＇s narrative line theory sheds some light on the analysis and interpretation of the narrative structure of Tristram Shandy.