经典叙事学,脱胎于结构主义诗学,于20世纪60年代在法国兴起,至70年代攀至巅峰,其后逐渐式微并转向后经典叙事学,研究中心也从法国移往美国。期间,叙事学领域大家辈出,并在叙事文本研究方面屡出新意,其所着重关注的叙事者、叙事视角、叙事时间与空间、不可靠叙事等概念至今仍为众学者加以沿用、探讨。而后经典叙事学领域内的认知性叙事学、修辞性叙事、女性主义叙事学等也是风头正健。 Classical narratology, born out of structuralist poetics, rose in France in the 1960s and climbed to its peak in the 1970s, then gradually declined to post-classical narratology and the Center moved from France to the United States. During this period, the field of narratology came into being, and many innovations were made in the study of narrative texts. The narratives, narrative perspectives, time and space of narration, and unreliable narrative were still used by many scholars. Cognitive narratology, rhetorical narrative, feminist narratology and so on in the field of classical narratology are also full of vigor.