A Comparative Study Of The Novel Of A Dream Of Red Mansions And Film And Television Texts

"Dream of Red Mansions" has been popularized by the people in the heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong until today.After hundreds of years,it has been called the pinnacle of Chinese classical novels by later generations.The ending of the fragmented version of "A Dream of Red Mansions",confusing metaphors,broad and profound thoughts,and encyclopedic social features have made scholars of the past dynasties devote themselves to the research and development of the study of the Red Mansions.Since the film entered China,the creators of the film and television texts have regarded this representative of China’s most classic story as an important adaptation object,and "Dream of Red Mansions" has forged an indissoluble bond with the film and television texts.The creation of the film and television text of "A Dream of Red Mansions" makes today’s creators and appreciators use a developmental perspective to look back and feel the development of history and the changes of the times.Therefore,this article chooses the novel texts and movies and TV dramas in the film and television texts as the research objects,based on dialogue theory,intertextuality theory,and narratology theory,and uses the research methods of cultural poetics to conduct research from the five basic dimensions of narration.The narrative factors that affect different texts are the characteristics of the art itself,the cultural context of the times,the subjective creation of the creator,and the different interpretations of the recipients.The introduction first clarifies the research background and research significance,combs the literature for the novel text,film and television text,and the comparative study of the novel and the film and television text,looks for the shortcomings and advantages of the literature research,and lists the research methods of related issues.The first chapter summarizes the general situation of each text of "A Dream of Red Mansions",and selects film and television texts with research value as the research object,namely the series of movies "Dream of Red Mansions" created by Xie Tieli and the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" created by Wang Fulin.At the same time,the theoretical basis for research and application is proposed,extending from Bakhtin’s polyphony theory to dialogue theory.Dialogue is the way of artistic structure,the communication between the creator and the work,the recipient and the work,and the dialogue and exchange of different times.Returning to the artistic noumenon of novel texts and film and television texts,connecting the times and narrative characteristics,is the theoretical basis of the thesis research.The second chapter studies the changes in the theme of the "Dream of Red Mansions" series of texts from the perspective of narrative themes,and analyzes the "what" of each text.The text of the novel presents diverse and complex narrative themes due to its textual characteristics and length of length,showing broad and profound ideas and vast contents;the film text,due to its mass artistic characteristics and the trend of reform and opening up,focuses on presenting the right Criticism of the feudal society and the embodiment of the value of life;the narrative theme of the TV series conforms to the trend of ideological emancipation,and because of its long length advantage,it emphatically reveals the dark and decadent feudal society,showing the resistance of Bao Dai’s love to traditional ethics,lamenting All hairpins have a miserable life in the reality of annihilating human nature.The third chapter studies the macro-level "how to say" of the series of "A Dream of Red Mansions" from the perspective of narrative structure.The novel text can enrich the complex,diverse and broad narrative themes,not because of simple linear weaving,but because of its deep structure.The symmetrical structure,four-season structure,and circular structure in the deep structure form the important reasons for the multiple and profound narrative themes;the film text analysis starts with the story map and the large combination segment,and the series is as long as six acts and eight episodes.The film "Dream of Red Mansions" was disassembled and analyzed.Due to the limited length of the film text and the characteristics of the main narrative,only Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng could be selected as the core to send out the two narrative clues of the change of life value and the darkness of social reality,forming a simple linear line Narrative structure: The anthologies of the TV series texts are consistent with the chapters of chapter-style novels,connecting the anthologies with suspense,but due to the lack of a super-narrative layer,a multi-line narrative structure is finally formed.The fourth chapter studies the question of "what to say" at the micro level of the narrative text of "A Dream of Red Mansions" from the dimension of narrative section.Different versions are formed during the spread of the text of the novel,and the plots also have similarities and differences.It contains rich mythological plots and dream plots,which are the foundation of the deep philosophical theme of the novel text.The rich and flexible narrative is the main reason for the characters’ reality and ideality;the film text is from many novel text versions,Choose Gaoben as the basis for the development of the narrative.Adopting the creative principles of "cold treatment" and "warm treatment",conforming to the dual narrative theme,following the linear narrative structure,and following the attributes of popular art,the narrative sections are deleted and added.In the case of narrative selection and processing,highlight the characters’ partial prominence and reduce the characteristics of multi-dimensional characters;the text of the TV series adopts the lost version as the basis for the development of the narrative,creating a thorough reality tragedy,and the full narrative creates a multi-dimensional The protagonist image and vivid three-dimensional edge characters.The fifth chapter studies the "Dream of Red Mansions" series of texts from the perspective of narrative and analyzes the question of "who is talking".The text of the novel adopts multiple narrative perspectives.It has both the omniscient and omnipotent narrative perspective of the true author and storyteller,which carries out a comprehensive and detailed narrative,and the limited intellectual perspective represented by "Brother Stone" and the characters in the novel,which is presented in a flexible and changeable manner.It constitutes a magnificent and rich novel text;because of its natural ontological attributes and the use of audiovisual language,the film text focuses on internal visual focus to construct the limited knowledge narrative perspective,and uses the eyes of the characters as the main means of internal visual focus;TV series The text uses zero visual focus or camera perspective to construct an omnipotent narrative perspective.Chapter VI analyzes the "Dream of Red Mansions" series of texts from the perspective of narrative time and space,and analyzes the question of "where" the story takes place.Narrative time and narrative space constitute narrative time and space,which is analyzed from story time and discourse time,story space and discourse space.The narrative time in the novel is infinitely extended and delayed by the author’s delicate and subtle emotions.The narrative space creates multiple spaces of illusory space and real space through the correspondence and connection of truth and falsehood.The movie text creates a loop in the form of echoes from the beginning to the end.Using audiovisual language to create a dual space of dream and reality;TV series use flashbacks to create a one-way time dimension,narrative space to present a single real space,and explore metaphorical space and psychological space in the real space.Through the comparative study of the series of text narratives,it is concluded that the changes of the era at the macro level can be projected into the narratives of different series of "Dream of Red Mansions".From the specific and objective text research,the presentation of the grand narrative theme,and the construction of the macro-level narrative structure,The choice of narrative section at the detail level,the choice of narrative perspective,and the creation of narrative time and space are reflected one by one.Under the background of the large environment,the changes of different text narratives are closely related to the creator,the recipient and the characteristics of the artistic ontology.