Abstract：In the 2000s， worldmaking has become one of the hot issues discussed by scholars of humanities and social sciences， including those from philosophy， linguistics， psychology， and literary criticism. As a rejoinder to Herbert Grabes， this paper examines such models of literary worldmaking as phenomenological model， constructive model and cognitive psychological model. It places a particular stress on narrative ways of literary worldmaking and their close connection with dissemination of ethical values. It argues that narrative is not only an important means of human existence but also an essential way of worldmaking and conveying ethical values. Reading literature means delving into the world created by literature. An analysis of literary world and its narrative ways of worldmaking reveals narrative structure and strategies of a text， in addition to helping readers to reconstruct the literary world by using the textual cues and relevant narrative elements. In reconstructing and evaluating the literary world， the readers arrive at a firm grasp of authorial intention as well as a better communication with the author. In doing so， the readers reap much ethical knowledge of the literary world and gain inspiration from reading， while literature realizes its moral teaching function in this process accordingly.
2020, Vol. 59 
