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Narratology (also known as narratology) and novel stylistics occupy a very important position in contemporary western novel criticism theory. Both narratology and stylistics use linguistic models to study literary works, which are interdisciplinary or marginal subjects with strong vitality. There are not only many similarities in their basic positions, but also important overlaps in the research objects. Of course, narratology and stylistics have many essential differences.
So far, there are no works at home and abroad to discuss the dialectical relationship between these two schools. British stylist R. Fowler mentioned the relationship between stylistics and narratology in the preface of a collection of essays he edited. R. fowler, editor. Stylistic and Structural Reliterature, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975, p.10/2. The title of this collection of essays is "Style and Structure in Literature". Fowler thinks that the "style" of stylistics research and the "structure" of narratology research complement each other. To illustrate this point, he borrowed Chomsky's deep and surface structure theory. He believes that the "structure" of narratology belongs to the deep structure of the work, and the "style" of stylistics belongs to the surface structure of the work. Fowler's distinction between the deep structure and the surface structure of his works is actually the distinction between content (plot structure) and form (expression form) ...