素有“中国的曼殊斐尔”之称的“五四”女作家凌叔华,深受英国现代短篇小说家凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德的影响,其小说创作明显地带有现代主义叙事风格的印记,表现在叙事修辞方面,则是反讽、隐喻、意象和重复等诸多手法的运用。在其小说中,凌叔华往往借助多种修辞手段,巧妙地表现出作品的深层主题寓意,使隐含在表层文本之下的潜文本得以浮现,既增强了审美效果,又实现了小说叙事与主题的完美统一。叙事手法的选择,在呈现作家精湛的现代短篇小说叙事艺术的同时,也使其多元思想和对世界人生的体认昭然若揭。 Known as “May Fourth ” female writer Ling Shuhua, known as “Mansfield Phil ” in China, by the British modern short storyteller Katherine Mansfield influence, his novel clearly with modernist narrative style Impression, manifested in the narrative rhetoric, is the use of many techniques such as irony, metaphor, image and repetition. In his novels, Ling often resorts to many rhetorical devices to subtly depict the deep theme of the work, to reveal the underlying texts hidden under the surface texts, which not only enhances the aesthetic effect but also realizes the narrative and theme of the novel The perfect unity. The choice of narrative techniques, while presenting the artist’s superb art of modern short story narration, has also made its pluralistic thinking and recognition of the world’s life clear.