Style Study In The Chinese Novel Of Gods And Spirits

This paper focuses on the stylistic feature of the novel of gods and spirits, grasping its essential features from each part of characteristic, and revealing some artistic expression of regularity, which form the stylistic features of the novel of gods and spirits. Not only is the novel of gods and spirits named on the basis of "imagery god" feature by which it falls into 3 types: standard, variation and conversion, but also an investigation is made on the evolution of the novel of gods and spirits, and then each feature of 3 stage is discussed: original, imitate and extension.On the forms of style this paper selects as focus points the subject, the imagery god feature, the self-turn of the theme, the action function of characters and spatial-temporal construct of structure. With the novel stylistic theory as guidance, based on the novel of gods and spirits, an innovative exploration is made into the construct of the novel of gods and spirits from the stylistic perspective. The subject "imagery god" feature is discussed from 3 sources: imagery writing, imagery matter and imagery reason. The self-turn of the theme "introspection" is explored from 3 aspects: the ethical main tune, the Confucian conversion and self-ideal with Ming-Qing dynasties "3 religions of the same source" as background and self-introspection as purpose. The action function of the characters is illustrated from the specific divinity, reality and action function of the characters, named the general figure of the novel of gods and spirits. The spatial-temporal construct pattern of structure is elaborated mainly from the spatial 3-layer turn of structural function value and the narrative function of alternative between the real and unreal, and it summarizes three unique patterns such as the route type, the transmigration type and the miscellany type.