一现在似乎是谈论文学形式的一个微妙时刻。过去的一百年时间里,文学形式的地位发生了戏剧性的变化。从新批评、俄国形式主义到结构主义,文学形式赢得了隆重的礼遇,继而晋升为无可争议的主角。各种文学形式的研究盛极一时。更大范围内,这一切被视为人文学科“语言转向”的组成部分。对于许多理论家说来,形式问题亦即语言问 One now seems to be a delicate moment to talk about literary form. In the past hundred years, the status of literary form has undergone dramatic changes. From the new criticism, Russian formalism to structuralism, literary form won grand courtesy and then promoted to the undisputed protagonist. The study of various literary forms is very popular. To a large extent, all this is considered as part of the humanities “language shift”. For many theorists, formal questions are also linguistic questions