The Grotesque Of The Ghost Story In The Weijin Southen And Northern Dynasties

The Grotesque is a kind of special artistic style, it contains the feeling of terrifying and comic, its constitution principle is abnormality.It makes people terrify and facetiosity. In the Ghost Story of the Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties, many stories are grotesque.Displays in the text, it can divide into two kind of types:image grotesque and plot grotesque.Through the.description and trace of the primitive myth and the CHEN WEI in the Han Dynasty, it could find the evolution. In these contrasts,we can find the new characteristics and the reason on society, ideology and literature. On this basis, it could find the implication, aesthetic value and effect of grotesque.The dissertation has three parts:The introduction part is to introduce the research tendency and the characteristic of the ghost story, and review the meaning of the selection.The first part analysis the grotesque in the Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties.It mainly divide into two kind of types:image grotesque and plot grotesque. And the image grotesque cantains human and object mixing, object mixing and human mixing.The plot grotesque contains segmentation,humanity of the object, crossbreed, deformation, ghost, apart of spirit and body, knell. These types are the form of the grotesque.The second part traces the process which the grotesque sources and the development changes. The grotesque origin really early, we can discover the grotesque form in the ancient times.Displays in the text, "Shan Hai Jing" records many ancient myths which contained the image grotesque. And this was the prime form of grotesque in the Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties. From the spring and autumn period to the Han Dynasty, the grotesque added many types. So we analyze some new characteristic: increase of the number of grotesque, diversification of the plot,literary translation and the trend of society. The new characteristic is on the society, belief and culture. For example, society turbulence, awakening of humanity, prevalence of Buddhism and Daoism, the development of literature.The third part is the aesthetic value, implication, functions and effect of grotesque. The implication is reflection of the people mentality in the confusion society. It exhibit anxiety and a kind of cognition to the world.The aesthetic value contains fantasticality,convulsion,delight and the feeling of mixing.The functions are expelling vice,making intension and mockery.The effect is on the image and the plot.