凯瑟琳.贝尔西是20世纪80年代以来英国最杰出的后结构主义文学与文化批评家之一,她的作品从一个新的角度解读英国文学和文化,极大地影响了英国的学界和普通读者。在早期作品中,她积极汲取20世纪60、70年代的法国理论,批判了西方传统文学批评中最常见的摹仿论和表现论,驳斥了古典现实主义,推崇文艺复兴时期的文学,并提出了以“积极的读者”为中心的阅读方法。 Catherine Bersi is one of Britain’s most prominent post-structuralist literary and cultural critics since the 1980s. Her work interprets British literature and culture from a new perspective and greatly affects British academics and ordinary readers. In her early works, she actively draws on the French theories of the 1960s and 1970s, criticizes the most common theories of imitation and representation in the western traditional literary criticism, refutes the classical realism, promotes the Renaissance literature, and proposes A reading method centered on “active reader ”.