On The Narrative Art Of Maugham's Novels

William Somerset Maugham is British famous dramatist and storywriter, the drama that he creates lets " English peson as much as have smiled for a many centuries ", Novel lets William Somerset Maugham become more famous , the novel in French,American and German William Somerset Maugham possesses a certain quantity of readers ." the chains of human nature " , " knife edge " , " moon and 6 pennies "of the novels let William Somerset Maugham possess position on literature history, review the comment circle of our country for William Somerset Maugham the comment article of works, concentrate in theme and figure image mainly to wait for aspect, the artistic form for works discussion is commented less, comment circle is with literature history generally acknowledged William Somerset Maugham emphasizes the story of novel relatively, the artistic form of not quite emphasizing novel, the language used has more plain comparison , straight white, so go back to it is the ranks of "second-rate writer ". But when reading William Somerset Maugham in the process of works, we may see, William Somerset Maugham the glamour great part of novel also source the unique way that William Somerset Maugham tells story , it is the problem of statement skill. This paper is major when reading William Somerset Maugham carefully on the foundation of novel, combination is narrative some theoretical analysis William Somerset Maughams studied the narrative artistic characteristic of novel. This paper divides into the most of 5s mainly. In foreword, have analysed briefly that one takes off the life story of William Somerset Maugham and some conditions of its important novel, the research condition of summarizing it in China, the upright problem for this paper offers basis. In in the first chapter of, major combination text has analysed the statement problem of visual angle of novel William Somerset Maugham, it is tradition that the works of William Somerset Maugham have adopted two statement visual angles and ones mainly know the 3th person of all-round completely statement visual angle, the works such as" the chains of human nature" and" veil", this kind of statement major appearance of visual angle is in William Somerset Maugham early stage of novel creation. The second is the statement visual angle of figure visual angle, this kind of visual angle is similar as first person visual angle. William Somerset Maugham think person annual matter Yu Chang, recover to feel that the understanding for others is not enough , want to, from the angle of individual, describe the figure that will write by oneself therefore only. William Somerset Maugham the very multiple works wanted are to have used figure statement visual angle , as" knife edge" and " moon and 6 pennies ". Chapter 2, have analysed , William Somerset Maugham Section 1 and the structural pattern of novel point out the most of novels of William Somerset Maugham to follow " unit mythology " circumstances pattern, in the novel in William Somerset Maugham, circumstances follow such a narrative pattern generally, from " leave " go to the circle of " return ", performance is call→set out→all previous risk→is the basic frame of returning. Section 2 has analysed William Somerset Maugham inhandling circumstances the major skill that adopts--------turn over climax and echo,William Somerset Maugham thinks that novel should have a complete circumstancesstructure, is beginning-------development-------climax-------ending, but WilliamSomerset Maugham likes the time in story close to climax Dang Kai one, carry out cold treatment for circumstances, cause novel twists and turns , fall to swing the effect that rises and falls. To let circumstances fair and reasonable, on the foundation that turns over climax , William Somerset Maugham has utilized the novel skill of echo , lets novel become a around echo, the art with tight logic is overall. Section 3 has discussed William Somerset Maugham, novels are traditional linear structures mostly, but have also reformed for it, have adopted open ending , so have brought a silk scent of modern novel. Final a chapter of have analysed William Somerset Maugham turn over Feng narrative, is mainly to follow its spoken language to turn over Feng with scene turns over Feng this two reverse sides are analysed , spoken language turns over Feng is angle analysis William Somerset Maugham from rhetoric mainly novel, combine the skill of narrating that visual angle has person statement mainly in Section 2 to go analysis William Somerset Maugham the scene of novel turns over Feng. Knot language for William Somerset Maugham novel narrative art is summarized , think that it has the double characteristic of realism and modernism, when passing Cheng on the foundation of traditional narrative artistic characteristic, William Somerset Maugham also has the courage to start new narrative skill and has taken certain promotion role for novel development. William Somerset Maugham has unique position on literature history and he should get more solicitudes.