历史与虚构的悖论——诺曼·梅勒传记小说《刽子手之歌》再解读

摘要

The literary criticism of New Historicism is one of the most important literary criticism school of the 20th century. Reread Norman Mailer＇ s novel The Executioner＇ s Song from a new historicist perspective, we can know Norman Mailer subverted the definite limit between reality and fabrication in order to manifest an ideological imagination different from the mainstream.Therefore, he falls into another paradox between reality and fabrication.%新历史主义文学批评是20世纪最重要的文学批评流派之一,从新历史主义视角来解读诺曼.梅勒的小说《刽子手之歌》,可以看出梅勒有意识地颠覆历史与虚构的明确界限,借以表现一种不同于当时主流的意识形态,在颠覆的同时却陷入了另一个历史与虚构的悖论之中。