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Defamiliarization Art Of "War"

Posted on:2011-02-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W YuanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360332455896Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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along with human society's development, the humanity material civilization is progressing unceasingly, people's material life is also getting more and more rich. But simultaneously the material also has brought the crisis to the humanity. The physical production and the expense, destroyed the ecological environment, but also causes the person disassimilation. The harm which the material civilization brings to the society has become the focal point which the society pays attention now. This novel, "War", criticize the material civilization. The primary coverage of this novel is the material, and it has the obvious"defamiliarization"characteristic in the means of expression.This article mainly carries on the elaboration from four parts: The first chapter mainly studies war's"defamiliarization". The war in the novel is different from the significance of traditional war, and the war here is between the material and humanity. The war has the different mode to display in the novel, it sometimes appears by its true self, and sometimes it is also very fuzzy, sometimes it is clear to the concrete material, thus the"defamiliarization"characteristic appeares. Human pursues the enjoyment of material greedly, this causes material flood, brings all sorts of questions to the Earth, this is war's true meaning. The second chapter mainly analyzes the"defamiliarization"of literary style. There are several kind of literary styles in the novel, the travel prose, the fable, Zhou Ji and the correspondence, the lecture. This chapter mainly talks about the characteristic of these literary styles in the novel, but also gives the reasons which make the author to use them. The third chapter mainly studies the"defamiliarization"of the performance method. When describing something, the novel has used the"defamiliarization"technique, and discribes the existence of something in the initial state directly, I call this the original ecology description. In order to show the material is a war, the author gives the material life, namely the material become the beasts which has endangered the human life. The material occupied the world the center, the humanity was materialized. These two kind of situations are the disassimilations. The person and the material have the absurdity in the novel, and the two formed a grotesque image. The fourth chapter mainly analyzes the reason which the"defamiliarization"was produced. France advocates the innovation of the literature tradition, and this is the cultural context in which the author use the"defamiliarization". Innovation in the exploration is author's artistic view, his works display the unique artistic style. Le clezio's worldview formed by life experiences is also the root of"defamiliarization".
Keywords/Search Tags:War, Defamiliarization, Literary Style, Performance Method
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