大卫·洛奇是当今英国著名的小说家和文学批评家。在为现代小说和现实主义进行辩护的过程中,洛奇逐渐发展并完善了关于小说的系统诗学。首先,洛奇为小说家的身份进行辩护,认为巴特所说的“作者已死”其实并不真切;其次,洛奇为小说的意义和功能进行辩护,并指出小说作为一种对话性、民主性的文体所体现的人文价值;最后,洛奇对小说中的时间、历史、语言以及模仿的有效性进行辩护,认为现实主义小说能够如实地、艺术地再现人们外在和内在的生活经历,是能够体念人们生命意义与人文价值的重要艺术形式。 David Lodge is the famous British novelist and literary critic. In the process of defending modern novels and realism, Lodge gradually developed and improved his systematic poetics about fiction. First of all, Lodge defended the identity of the novelist, thinking that “author’s dead” was not actually what Barthes said. Secondly, Lodge defended the significance and function of the novel and pointed out that novels as a kind of dialogue And the humanistic value embodied in the democratic style. Finally, Lodge defended the time, history, language and the effectiveness of imitation in the novel, and considered that realistic novels can faithfully and artfully reproduce the external and internal life of people Experience is an important art form that can reflect people’s life meaning and humanistic value.