在 2 0世纪西方文学理论与批评中 ,美国新历史主义批评家们将历史批评置于后现代氛围中进行了全新的阐释。海登·怀特在《作为文学虚构的历史本文》中辩证地论述了历史本文实为一种主体叙述 ,而且是一种在特定历史语境中的文学虚构 ,同时 ,主体叙述与历史本文、历史语境与文学虚构之间存在着“解释的循环 In the theory and criticism of Western literature in the 20th century, the critics of the New American historians conducted a totally new interpretation of the historical criticism in a postmodern atmosphere. Hayden White dialectically describes history as a kind of subjective narration in his book The History of Fiction as Literature, and it is also a kind of literary fiction in a specific historical context. At the same time, subject narration and history text, history There is a “cycle of explanation” between context and literary fiction