论诺思罗普·弗莱的空间批评与花园想象

中图分类号］I06 [文献标识码]A [文章编号]1008-1763（2025）05-0094-09

On Northrop Frye's Spatial Criticism and Garden Imagination

ZHANG Wenxi

Facultyof English Language and Culture，Guangdong Universityof Foreign Studies，Guangzhou，China

Abstract：The garden imagination serves as a crucial methodological framework for approaching Northrop Frye's thought from a spatial perspective. It reveals the cosmological orientation of Frye's theory while also reflecting his engagement with public dialogue and modes of self-expression. The spatial characteristics of Frye's mytho-archetype criticism，its centrifugal movement across literary history，the centripetal organization of archetypal clusters，and the displacement and communication of perceptual experience，highlight the integrative dynamic of internal formation and external dialogue. Frye's notion of a“Garrison mentality” simultaneously projects a symbolic structure of fortification to resist the wilderness and subtly absorbs the wilderness's primal vitality. The tension and synthesis form the spiritual foundation of the“third nature”，manifesting the dialectical interaction between Canadian literature and Frye's thought. Frye's educational practice exemplifies the profound alignment between his critical vision and life choices.Activities such as “educating imagination”and “Professor Frye” possess theoretical depth and public openness cultivating a reflective rhythm in stillness，emphasizaing the productivity of leisure and otium.Through analyzing three dimensions—the holism and synthesis of Frye's theory，its theoretical soil and internal dynamics，and the mutual substantiation of theory and public practice，this approach holds significant value for constructing a theoretical reading system where the theorist and theoretical thought coexist so as to revitalize the imaginative power and vitality of literary criticism.

Key words： Northrop Frye;garden imagination; the third nature; leisure

作为理论觉醒的重要开端，诺思罗普·弗莱（NorthropFrye）及其代表作《批评的剖析》（Anato-myofCriticism）不仅重构了20世纪文学批评的研究范式，更开启了现代文学理论对系统性、跨学科性和文化整体性的追求。（剩余17934字）