The Turn and Revitalization of David Lodge's Poetics of Fiction under the Influence of Bakhtin
Compared with David Lodge's early theory of"language of Fiction,"which cata-pulted him to fame as a critic of the novel in China and abroad,the development of Lodge's poetics of fiction"after Bakhtin"has not received due attention.However,the most important thing that Lodge did under the influence of Bakhtin was precisely to reflect on the former."After Bakhtin,"David Lodge's poetics of fiction has undergone turns from"pure unity"to"heterogrossia"in stylistics,from"linguistic monism"to"dialogic criticism"in critical meth-odology,and from"language initiation"to"choice preexisting"in his perspective on the ori-gin of creation,along with revitalization in the debate of authorship,the insistence on literary aesthetics,the practice of criticism,and the exploration of the typology of fictional discourse.The turn and revitalization of Lodge's poetics of fiction have an inherent logic,exploring ways out of the dilema of major contemporary literary theoretical issues of universal significance,endowing David Lodge's Bakhtin studies with uniqueness and originality,and providing many insights into issues related to literature and literary criticism in the current Chinese context.The discussion of the above issues will help us better understand the overall development and characteristics of David Lodge's poetic theory of fiction,which is regarded as a representative figure of formalist fiction theory,and thus understand an aspect of Bakhtin's influence in the development of European and American literary theories that has not yet been fully acknowl-edged and assessed.
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