A.S.拜厄特的学术敏感和理论自觉不仅体现在其小说选材上,也蕴含在她注重描写、文辞冗繁的语言风格中。这种语言风格既与现实主义作品倚重细节的传统一脉相承,也体现出一种与语言理论论战的姿态,暗示在后现代语境下沟通词与物的努力,体现了一个对语言问题具有深刻意识的小说家在后理论时代所面临的困境、写作的焦虑与抉择。 A.S. Byatt’s academic sensitivity and theoretical consciousness are not only reflected in his selection of novels, but also in the language style in which she focuses on description and rhetoric. This linguistic style is not only the tradition of reliance on details in realist works, but also reflects the attitude of polemic with the theory of language, suggesting that efforts to communicate words and things in a postmodern context embody a profound awareness of language problems Of the novelists in the post-theoretical era of the dilemma faced by writing anxiety and choice.