Abstract Informed by cognitive narratology and specifically based on our metarepresentational ability, this paper explores how the subjectivity in Henry James’s tales is transferred to the summaries provided by critics for the orientation of readers. Since it enables real, and realistic, minds to process content along with sources and paths of propagation, the metarepresentational skill proves to be an essential instrument for discriminating in narrative texts the authenticated, source-free facts from those which are contingent on the subjective domains of characters and character-narrators. When for a number of reasons this skill is relaxed or altogether deactivated in the act of summarizing, the resulting product will betray the original work by projecting a distorted or reductive image of it, particularly in a writer like James who was increasingly concerned with imparting informational verisimilitude to his fiction. The treatment of metarepresentational sources in the summaries of James’s tales generates perplexing patterns, such as when the handling of sources in a summary contradicts the critic’s own conclusions elsewhere in his or her work. This clash yields insights into the authenticating function of the fictional text in connection with its cognitive rhetoric.

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阅读文字吗？亨利·詹姆斯故事概述中的元表征和主观性模式

摘要在认知叙事学的指导下，特别是基于我们的元表征能力，本文探讨了亨利·詹姆斯故事的主观性如何转移到评论家针对读者定位的摘要中。因为它使真实，现实的思想者能够处理内容以及传播的来源和路径，所以元表征技术被证明是在叙述性文本中将已认证的，无来源的事实与那些取决于主观领域的事实相区别的重要工具。角色和角色旁白。当出于种种原因使这项技能在总结过程中放松或完全失灵时，所得产品将通过投射出变形或还原的图像而背离原始作品，尤其是像詹姆斯这样的作家，他越来越关注于为小说提供信息真实性。詹姆士的故事摘要中对元表征来源的处理产生了令人困惑的模式，例如，摘要中对来源的处理与批评家在其著作中其他地方的结论相矛盾时。这种冲突产生了对虚构文本的认知功能及其认知修辞的认识。