布斯的《小说修辞学》的贡献体现在:指出了作者在小说中修辞性介入的必然性和必要性,解决了讲述和展示的关系问题;对传统小说和现代小说的修辞技巧作了细致的研究;强调道德和伦理的意义,把小说修辞道德化和伦理化;强调了作者与读者进行交流和沟通的意义。布斯的小说理论还有助于人们认识和克服20世纪现代主义文学理论和创作中存在的种种反修辞的消极因素。

Contribution of “The Rhetoric of Fiction” written by W.Booth addressed several areas:pointing out the inevitability and necessity of the writer's rhetoric involvement;solving the problem of relationship between narration and display,undertaking close study of rhetoric techniques,emphasizing the meaning of morality and ethics,and stressing the significance of communication between reader and writer as well.His novels also help solve problems brought about by various negative factors that are anti-rhetoric in the 20 th century modernist literary theoreies.