辛克莱·刘易斯是美国文学史上第一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的作家,但是许多批评家和读者对于刘易斯作品中的复调叙述方式表示不满。本文试以小说《巴比特》为例并运用巴赫金的复调理论来赏析这一独特的叙述方式。 Sinclair Lewis was the first writer in the history of American literature to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, but many critics and readers expressed dissatisfaction with the polyphonic narrative in Lewis’s work. This article attempts to use the novel “Babbitt” as an example and use Bakhtin’s polyphony theory to appreciate this unique way of narration.