Abstract:I discuss Charles Baxter's criticisms of progressive and dysfunctional variants of narrative theory, along with his defense of what he calls narrative rhyme, which counters the ideas of both progression through an ordered series of events and entanglement in the loop of trauma with that of repetition. Rather than being developmental in nature, narratives of this sort are permutational, inviting a succession of oblique approaches to one and the same character or situation, which affords us a variety of perspectives on the basis of which we come to acknowledge the world's, and our own, complexity.

中文翻译：

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叙事韵律与美好生活

摘要：我讨论了查尔斯·巴克斯特 (Charles Baxter) 对渐进式和功能失调的叙事理论变体的批评，以及他对他所谓的叙事押韵的辩护，后者通过一系列有序的事件和创伤循环中的纠缠来反驳这两种观点。重复。这类叙述本质上不是发展性的，而是置换性的，邀请一系列倾斜的方法来处理同一个角色或情况，这为我们提供了各种不同的视角，以此为基础，我们开始承认世界的，以及我们的自己, 复杂性.