20世纪末,国际知名叙事学家、《故事世界:叙事研究学刊》(Story-world:A Journal of Narrative Studies)杂志主编戴维·赫尔曼(David Herman)率先抛出“后经典叙事学”(postclassical narratology)这一话题,并从认知科学的角度对此作了初步阐述。但“后经典叙事学”真正为学界所熟知是《作为复数的后经典叙事学:叙事分析新视野》(Narratologies:New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis,1999)一书出版之后的事情。若将该书视作后经典叙事学研究的起点,那么在新世纪头十年画上句号的时候,回顾后经典叙事学的发展历程,梳理后经典叙事学的研究现状,反思后经 At the end of the 20th century, internationally renowned narratologist David Herman, the editor-in-chief of Story-world: A Journal of Narrative Studies, took the lead in throwing “post-classical narratology ”(postclassical narratology) this topic, and from the cognitive science point of view made a preliminary exposition. But post-classical narratology is really well-known to academics after the publication of Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis (1999). If we treat the book as a starting point for the study of post-classical narratology, then after the conclusion of the first decade of the new century, we will review the development of post-classical narratology, review the current research on post-classical narratology,