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The Narrative Art In F·scott Fitzgerald's Fiction

Posted on:2011-01-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332465505Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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In the twenties of the twentieth century, F ? S Fitzgerald was a popular and famous writer in America, who was also known to the world, while there are Hemingway and Faulkner. Surprisingly,also as the genius in the field of literary, Fitzgerald did not start his writing work behind the other two.But in Chinese ,his works were not studied more than the other two of his colleagues. The translation of his works or the research paper about his works, Fitzgerald's studies were inadequate, and this is to do a little in this area.Fitzgerald's research, of course, there can be many entry points, the paper has no intention to do everything, just select the narrative theory as a starting point for research and study in this area for the domestic concerns of a text-only features, trying to describe the texts for more analysis by the following three perspectives which are narrative context, narrative voice and the "polyphonic",and at last to present the Narrative Feature of Fitzgerald's works as completely as possible. Therefore, the main part of the thesis by the following three chapters:The first part of the main narrative situation theory as a starting point, from the narrative context of the two elements which are Personal Narrative and narrative focus, and narrative context of the fixed and the transfer of two major aspects to analyze the characteristics in Fitzgerald's novels. The second part of the paper analyzes the works from the perspective of the narrative voice, and obtain that the narrative voice is clarity. The third part analyzes from the two aspects which are the implicit narrative and the shift narrative, and reveals that the polyphonic effects which is from the text itself and the text is singing with the real world.
Keywords/Search Tags:F.Scott Fitzgerald, Narrative voice, Narrative "Polyphony", Narrative context
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