进入21世纪后,西方叙事学界迎来一轮显著的“情感转向”。就情感研究而言,叙事学家们普遍聚焦于模仿性情感而忽略了反模仿性情感。事实上,当代先锋实验作品中存在大量的物理上、逻辑上、人类属性上不可能的、反模仿的非自然情感。通过植入非自然情感,当代先锋实验作品进一步凸现了文学叙事的虚构性本质,达到产生陌生化效果之目的。在非自然情感的阐释选择上,文章以伊恩·麦克尤恩的短篇小说《既仙即死》为例,通过运用“自然化解读”与“非自然化解读”两种相互对立的阐释策略,试图揭示二者之间的交叉性和互补性,提倡在提高非自然叙事文本可读性的同时保留其内在的非自然性。在此基础上,文章对非自然情感的未来研究提出了若干任务与方向,以供学界在这一话题上的深入研究提供建设性参考。
The beginning of the 21st century witnessed not only an "affective turn" in contemporary fiction but also an "affective turn" in literary criticism. In the current scholarship of emotion studies, critics mainly focus on the mimetic aspects of emotion from a cognitive perspective while neglecting its antimimetic aspects. This paper argues that not all stories are created by the normal and usual emotions. Instead, there exist the so-called unnatural emotions in contemporary avant-garde and antimimetic narratives, which are physically, logically, or humanly impossible. Through presenting unnatural emotions, contemporary avant-garde narratives not only foreground the fictionality of unnatural narratives but also generate defamiliarizing effects. Taking Ian McEwan's Dead as They Come as an example, this paper proposes a synthetic approach to unnatural emotions by combining both naturalizing reading strategies and unnaturalizing reading strategies, so as to make the text readable without losing its unnaturalness.