文学理论在吸引人们广泛关注的同时,几乎与批评一起成为一种特有的文学体裁。在众多的文学研究样式中,叙事理论越来越居于中心的位置。对叙事理论本身的探讨与用叙事理论来分析具体叙事作品并行发展。对在高校从事文学研究与学习的师生来说,讲授和学习一些叙事学知识已然成为一种时尚和必须。在这方面,西方学者显然走在了我们的前面。近年来,西方学界不仅问世了大量的具有导论性质、教材性质的叙事学论著,2010年美国MLA还出版了 Literary theory attracts people’s extensive attention and at the same time becomes almost a unique literary genre together with criticism. In many literary research styles, the narrative theory is more and more in the center. The discussion of narrative theory itself and narrative theory analyze the parallel development of specific narrative works. For teachers and students engaged in literature research and study in colleges and universities, teaching and learning some narratological knowledge has become a fashion and necessity. In this regard, Western scholars apparently walk in front of us. In recent years, Western scholars not only come out with a large number of introductory and teaching material narrative theories, and the MLA was published in 2010