The Significance of Fictionalizing
The Significance of Fictionalizing
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1997
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W. Iser
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如果一篇文学文本对读者做了一些事情，那么它同时也告诉我们一些关于他们的事情。因此，文学变成了一根占卜棒，可以确定我们的性情、欲望、倾向，并最终确定我们的整体构成。问题是，为什么我们可能需要这种特殊的媒介，特别是考虑到文学作为一种媒介与其他媒介处于同等地位，而它们在我们的文明中发挥的日益重要的作用表明文学在多大程度上失去了作为文化缩影的意义。一种媒介越全面地履行其社会文化功能，它就越被视为理所当然，就像过去的文学一样。它确实履行了一些这样的功能，从娱乐到信息和文献，再到消遣，但这些功能现在已经分配给许多独立的机构，这些机构不仅与文学激烈竞争，而且剥夺了文学以前包罗万象的功能。文学是否还能提供其他媒体无法提供的东西？
If a literary text does something to its readers, it also simultaneously tells us something about them. Thus literature turns into a divining rod, locating our dispositions, desires, inclinations, and eventually our overall makeup. The question arises as to why we may need this particular medium, especially in view of the fact that literature as a medium is put on a par with other media, and the ever-increasing role that these play in our civilization shows the degree to which literature has lost its significance as the epitome of culture. The more comprehensively a medium fulfills its sociocultural function, the more it is taken for granted, as literature once used to be. It did indeed fulfill several such functions, ranging from entertainment through information and documentation to pastime, but these have now been distributed among many independent institutions that not only compete fiercely with literature but also deprive it of its formerly all-encompassing function. Does literature still have anything to offer that the competing media are unable to provide?