Research On Narrative Characteristics Of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos

Cthulhu Mythos is the most distinctive novel written by American writer,Howard Phillips Lovecraft in his writing career.He creates a vivid fantasy world by the narrative technique with unique artistic charm,by which he expresses his worries and thoughts about the development of modern science and technology and human destiny.This paper takes Cthulhu Mythos created by Lovecraft as the research object,analyzes and discusses the narrative momentum,narration spatiotemporal structure and narrative mode of the Cthulhu Mythos on the basis of related narratogical theories in order to comprehensively,systematically and deeply discuss the value and significance of its narrative art.The strong narrative power is regarded as the premise and foundation of the Cthulhu Mythos narrative art.In the novel,the author’s motivation,the story’s motivation and the reader’s motivation together constitute a complete power chain in the narrative activities of the Cthulhu Mythos created by Lovecraft.while promoting the narrative process of the novel,it also makes the novel keep lasting attraction.The delicate narration spatiotemporal structure is an important way to realize the the narrative art of Cthulhu Mythos.On the one hand,the narrative time in the novel presents the characteristics of inversion and deformation by using the inverse time sequence tracing,adjusting the direction and scale of time,and repeating the narration;on the other hand,the author further expands the narrative space of short story from the complexity and diversity of grotesque forms,making the narrative space of the Cthulhu Mythos manifest an open and grotesque character.The multiple narrative patterns are vital sign that the narrative art of Cthulhu Mythos is maturing.The author greatly shortens the reading distance between the reader and the novel by using the internal aggregation mode,and he enriches the narrative content and levels of the novel on the back of the dream narrative mode,enhancing the metaphorical and symbolic nature of the novel.While the reality-myth dual narrative mode in the novel strengthened its fantasy,which further demonstrates the author’s in-depth thinking about modern human spiritual anxiety and survival dilemma.