Since Henry James, an American writer and Flaubert, a French novelist, first manipulated it in their literary works to achieve various rhetorical distances, more and more writers have paid their attention to its application with novel ideas in practice.

• 自美国作家亨利·詹姆斯与法国作家福楼拜首先注重其在小说中的运用并以此作为调节叙述距离的重要工具，越来越多的作家在这方面不断创新、实践、发展、运用并成为了叙述学领域的研究热点。