The Psycholinguistics Study On S.Zweig's Fictions

As an Austrian novelist and biographer, Stefan Zweig has written a great many nouvelle, features and biographies, which show remarkable achievements. In modern western literature fields, esp. in the field of novels writing, S. Zweig' s using mental language in his works is a great success. For a better understanding of S. Zweig's literary works, the thesis intends to discuss his mental language in his works based on the theory of psycholinguistics.The thesis includes three parts: introductory part, main body and conclusion. The introductory part focuses on S. Zweig's life experience, current study both at home and abroad, the purpose of this paper, the approaches that are to be employed, and some problems that need dealing with in this paper. The main body is composed of five chapters. Chapter One is to analyze the reason for the formation of S. Zweig's cosmopolitanism in multi-cultural psychological context, and the achievements and feature of his poems, essays dramas and novels. In Chapter Two, narrative strategy will be discussed from the first personal narration and narrative framework of his novels. Chapter Three is to discuss the inner character of the mental language from the perspective of general rhetoric devices and musicality of the language. Chapter Four focuses on the central concept "passion" of mental language in S. Zweig's works. The possibility of the origination of passion and its spiritual character will be discussed from the aspects of the construction of the writer's psychology mechanism, and characteristics of mental language. Chapter Five is to probe the interrelation between his novels and historic psychological context which has undergone pondering and transformation in his mind. The conclusion part is to sum up the whole paper and lays an extra emphasis on his peculiar position in world's literary history, and defects of contents in his works have also been pointed out...