从宏观视域对文学做出高度概括的诺斯洛普·弗莱(Northrop Frye),以其构建的神话-原型批评赢得了世界声誉,同时,也因“超然自足的神话现代主义框架”而受到后现代学者的诟病。(1)但事实上,由于这一理论有着巨大的包容性,它恰恰成为诸多后现代理论的生长点。同样,他关于文学虚构的论述,也因其包容性而构成强大的内在张力和阐释力。一在谈到文学的“真实感”时,弗莱指出,真实感(reality)不同于真实性(realism),它更为宽泛,诸如幻想作品、浪漫故事等,都可以具有真实感。文学的结构原则是神话和隐喻,二者都违反常理 Northrop Frye, a highly generalized piece of literature from a macro perspective, won the world reputation for his constructed mythology - archetypal criticism, but also because of the “transcendental self-mythological framework of modernism” “And criticized by post-modern scholars. (1) But in fact, due to the huge inclusiveness of this theory, it has just become the point of growth of many postmodern theories. Similarly, his account of the fiction of literature also poses a strong internal tension and explanatory power because of its inclusiveness. When talking about literary ”sense of reality," Frye pointed out that reality is different from realism. It is more general. Things such as fantasy works and romantic stories can all be realistic. The structural principles of literature are myths and metaphors, both of which contradict common sense