The Ironic Narration Of Chinese Fictions In Ming And Qing Dynasty

This paper aims at the ironic narration of fictions in Ming and Qing dynasty. Firstly Arranging the ironic theory, the paper compares it's development in the history of Chinese literature theory with that in western history, then It trys to find out some relations between them. Secondly the paper discusses the reason why irony became one of the important characteristics of fictions in Ming and Qing dynasty. Lastly, the ironic techniques and characteristics of these fictions, such as Four Qi-Shu and The Dream of Red Mansion, will be emphasized, including ironic feathers on theme and style.The paper can mainly divided into two chapters: Chapter One is made up of two sequent parts. One is western ironic development, in which there are three stages. Irony developed from a rhetoric technique to a phylosophic thiking method , and then it came back to the linguistic basic principle. The other is Chinese ironic development before Ming dynasty, which has no certain divisions. But there are still some representative terms, such as "implication", which summarize the main ironic characteristic in Chinese literature works from rhetoric style and philosophy.The first part of Chapter Two mainly analyses two important reasons why irony is very important to fictions in Ming and Qing dynasty. One is the fiction's own traits, which are its comic style and paradox between reality and fabrication. The other is philosophic trend at that time, that is three dominated religions mixed together from Ming dynasty . The latter part put the emphasis on concrete narrative techniques, such as "pun" "poem" etc . And the authors' complex attitude to thecharacters and contradict trend .The last one is fictions' comic style and comic techniques.Concluding remark discusses briefly that as to the research of modern works, it is very meaningful to make an analysis of ironic narration in fictions in Ming and Qing dynasty.