ABSTRACT: In this essay, I propose a new model and methodology for investigating the productive, layered ways in which affects operate in and through narrative texts in the communicative loops of reading and writing. I delineate this model by way of a dialogue between different concepts of worlding, world-building, and worldmaking circulating in narrative and affect theory, which provide connecting points between the two fields as well as diverging (Deleuzian, neuroscientific, phenomenological) approaches to affect. In developing these connecting points, the proposed syncretic model addresses the shortcomings of current uses of affect, including the foreclosure of textuality and subjectivity in Deleuzian conceptualizations and the narrow emotion concepts and generalizing tendencies of neuroscientific approaches. In reconceptualizing narrative worldmaking as a multidimensional, ‘multivectoral’ assemblage of heterogeneous elements, I detail how the rhetorical processes of narration and reading engage affects, bodily memories, and associations in layered transactions between characters, narrators, implied and actual readers and authors. Probing the model’s productivity through a reading of Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, I spell out three sets of implications for narrative theory: I consider fictionality’s affective engagement in the world, the workings of distributed, nonsovereign agency in the loop of literary communication, and the potentials of reconfigurative reading as a methodology of ‘following’ affective complexity.

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配置的影响：叙事世界的新方法

摘要：在这篇文章中，我提出了一种新的模型和方法，用于研究情感在阅读和写作的交流循环中的叙事文本中和通过叙事文本起作用的富有成效的、分层的方式。我通过叙事和情感理论中流传的世界化、世界构建和世界制造的不同概念之间的对话来描绘这个模型，它提供了两个领域之间的连接点以及不同的（德勒兹的、神经科学的、现象学的）方法来影响情感. 在开发这些连接点时，所提出的融合模型解决了当前使用情感的缺点，包括德勒兹概念化中对文本性和主观性的排斥以及神经科学方法的狭隘情感概念和概括倾向。在将叙事世界构建重新定义为异质元素的多维、“多向量”组合时，我详细说明了叙事和阅读的修辞过程如何在角色、叙述者、隐含和实际读者和作者之间的分层交易中产生情感、身体记忆和关联。通过阅读 Junot Díaz 的 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 探索模型的生产力，我阐明了叙事理论的三组含义：我考虑了虚构性在世界中的情感参与，文学循环中分布式非主权机构的运作沟通，以及重构阅读作为一种“追随”情感复杂性的方法的潜力。我详细介绍了叙述和阅读的修辞过程如何在人物、叙述者、隐含和实际读者和作者之间的分层交易中产生影响、身体记忆和关联。通过阅读 Junot Díaz 的 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 探索模型的生产力，我阐明了叙事理论的三组含义：我考虑了虚构性在世界中的情感参与，文学循环中分布式非主权机构的运作沟通，以及重构阅读作为一种“追随”情感复杂性的方法的潜力。我详细介绍了叙述和阅读的修辞过程如何在人物、叙述者、隐含和实际读者和作者之间的分层交易中产生影响、身体记忆和关联。通过阅读 Junot Díaz 的 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 探索模型的生产力，我阐明了叙事理论的三组含义：我考虑了虚构性在世界中的情感参与，文学循环中分布式非主权机构的运作沟通，以及重构阅读作为一种“追随”情感复杂性的方法的潜力。