Form And Read: Ancient Vernacular Novel Style

Literary Style is the types or forms of literature work. The reason why literature work presents respectively the different body class characteristic is that writers refer to some kind of special standard when they are writing, it is the intrinsic regulated of literary style. The literary style contains not only the surface structure of literature, but also the internal technique of expression and the aesthetic standards. Style is the important respect of literature researching, it attracts researchers' attention all the time. Chinese people have understood this conception since long time before, but the style -analysis on novels began at Ming and Qing Dynasty. Researchers today have made considerable headway on novel's style, the analyzing has almost reached all details. But it seems that a standard model that how to analyze the novel's style hasn't been set up. So, the author chose style-analyzing as the cut point of researching, and want to acquire a better understanding of Chinese vernacular-novels with close-reading.There are three parts of this thesis: introduction, main body and concluding remarks. The introduction is about the foundation , and present researching situation of this topic. In the concluding remarks , the author reviewed the content of main body briefly. The main body contained five aspects.The first chapter, language form of vernacular novel. It discussed the "surface" style of vernacular novel through three parts: the character of vernacular, the stereotype expressions and the combine of prose and rhymes.The second chapter, rhetoric and expression ways of character in vernacular novels. This chapter consists of four parts, it discussed three positive figures of speech from 1-4 section: supposes question , rhetoric question, and exaggeration. Then, we discussed the expression ways of character in vernacular novels.The third chapter, person and narrative perspective. There are three parts of this chapter: some questions about theory, the person feature of vernacular novel, the types of narrative perspective. The forth chapter, sequence and rhythm. It related to the narrate time in novels. This chapter took up the following three questions one by one: essentials of sequence and rhythm, the sequence of vernacular novels, and the rhythm of vernacular novels.The fifth chapter, structure. This chapter traced back to the source of structure at first. Then, it discussed from three respects: the requirement on structure of novels, the macro-types and micro-technique of vernacular novels.