A Study Of Unnatural Narrative Theory

As a narrative phenomenon,"unnatural narrative" has existed since ancient times,but it has been in the field of vision of researchers for nearly two decades as a theory.As an important part of post-classical narratology,unnatural narrative theory focuses on highly fictional narrative works that violate nature and imitate narrative norms,and is now in the stage of vigorous development.This study starts with the classic works of unnatural narrative theorists,discriminates the similarities and differences of their definitions,combs their core categories in detail,and makes a reflection and prospect of the theory,hoping to help the unnatural narrative theory move towards systematization.The introduction part explains the origin of the research,the significance of the research and the summary of the research at home and abroad,and briefly combs the development process and related concepts of unnatural narrative theory.The first chapter combs and summarizes the theoretical definitions of Brain Richardson,Jan Alber and Stefan Iversen,and discusses various positions and viewpoints from a comparative perspective.Richardson pointed out that "unnatural" is "anti-imitation",which is judged by two criteria: one is the anti-imitation feature of the text,and the other is that the author has the intention to violate the standard narrative form.Iversen regards unnatural narrative as a rhetorical skill of "permanent defamiliarization" and judges unnatural narrative from the two dimensions of readers’ perception and text features.Alber constructs the theory from the "impossible world" and takes physical rules,logical axioms and other realistic objectivity as a reference.Taking into consideration,this study believes that it is a feasible way to judge unnatural narrative based on the existing imitation framework and with reference to the objective characteristics of the text.The second chapter is established on the basis of "taking the features of the text as the criterion" located in the first chapter,that is,the core of judging the unnatural is to identify the "unnatural elements" in the text.This chapter mainly explores the four core categories of unnatural narrative person,unnatural events and sequences,unnatural narrative time and unnatural narrative space,and classifies and rearranges them on the basis of integrating the expositions of different categories by unnatural narrative theorists.in order to make the analytical framework of unnatural narrative clearer.Unnatural narrative theorists have found that many unconventional strategies contain ideological characteristics,but they have not been explained in detail.in view of this,the second task of this chapter is to combine experimental literary works,especially feminist works and post-colonial literature to illustrate the functional significance of unconventional narrative strategies.The third chapter reflects on and looks forward to the unnatural narrative theory.Unnatural narratology not only deepens the existing narrative theory,but also contributes a new way to the interpretation of postmodern and experimental narrative,and is also beneficial in broadening the cognitive vision of human beings.However,due to the emphasis on inductive logic,the theoretical basis of unnatural narrative theory is relatively weak,and the theoretical definitions and concepts are not unified.As the innovation of this study,this paper analyzes the two future development ideas of "constructing feminist unnatural narration" and "unnatural narration from a comparative perspective".In response to Richardson’s ultimate goal of unnatural narrative-"comprehensive descriptive narratology".