专业八级改错练习 第51期

【练习】

Something has been happening to the concept of "fiction",either in critical discourse and elsewhere. For a long time, __1

this concept operated under common understood restrictions. __2

It was used to refer to a certain genre of literature; a certain __3

aspect of literature in general——the element of plot, action,or fable, including such constituents like character, setting, __4

 scene, and so on; and to any narrative or story contained __5

a large element of invention. But recently, the concept of "fiction" has undergone an extension. Though still used to __6

 refer to the action or plot of literary work, it has come to __7

be appllied to something more: to the ideas, themes, and　beliefs that are being embodied in the action or plot. It is __8

not only the events in literature that are regarded as fictive but the "message" or "world view" conveyed in the presentation of the events as well. And this is not the end of the matter.

Gone a step further, critics now sometimes suggest, by a kind __9

of tautology, that literary meanings are fictions although all __10

meanings are fictions, this critical view asserts that "life" and "reality" are themselves fictions.