詹姆斯·费伦是当今北美最有影响的后经典修辞性叙事理论家。继出版《活着是为了讲述》之后,费伦力推新著《体验小说:判断、进程及修辞性叙事理论》。书中,费伦在重访和拓展修辞性叙事理论的基础上,以考察读者的阅读体验为中心旨趣,藉“叙事判断”、“叙事进程”之共谋为视角,从叙事理论和叙事批评实践的双重层面,着力探讨读者“以相似的方式,体验相同作品”的可能空间,展示了修辞性叙事理论的力量。 James Phelan is the most influential post-classical rhetorical narrative theorist in North America today. Following the publication of “Living is to Tell,” Farenton is pushing for a new “Experience Fiction: Judgment, Process, and Rhetorical Narrative Theory.” In the book, on the basis of revisiting and expanding the rhetorical narrative theory, Fei Lun focuses on the readers’ reading experience and from the complicity of “narrative judgment” and “narrative process” Theory and the practice of narrative criticism, we try our best to explore the possible space for readers to “experience the same work in a similar way”, demonstrating the power of rhetorical narrative theory.