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On Pluralism Of The Narrative Art In Wuthering Heights

Posted on:2007-12-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185451562Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Since Amily's Wuthering Heights came out, its destiny has been erratic. But, time has not made it covered with dust, censure has not buried it either. On the contrary, as time goes on, the baptism of the trials and hardship, temper out its dazzling brilliant rays further. Entering the 20th century, Amily's talent began to be admitted, her reputation grew with each passing day, "the ugly duckling"of British literary world has turned into"a white swan". Her works demonstrate a kind of special artistic charm, having attracted many Chinese and foreign scholars, and even the academic circles raise the upsurge to study Wuthering Heights constantly, people make it get the exhaustive interpretation from different perspective. The thesis attempts to proceed with the narrative arts to investigate its narrative perspective, narrative mode and narrative persons by means of comparative analysis to reveal its pluralism of narrative art and value.The thesis is made up of six parts. Introduction: The brief expounding artistic value of Wuthering Heights and position in the literature history. Part one: Summarizing the comments on it from critical circles. Part two: Explaining the characteristic with pluralistic perspective. Part three: Examining it closely pluralistic characteristic of narrative mode. Part four: From the perspective of narrative persons, announce that narrative persons pluralistic function. Conclusion: It is an excellent work that has pluralistic narrative style.Further studying this works, we find that it is regarded as a masterpiece because it's seemingly "bloated and clumsy", but really ingeniously conceived. In view of deep meaning, narrative art of pluralism is author's surmounting and rebellion of literary tradition, literary consciousness and ethical values of Victoria times. Pluralistic narrative art determines the whole structure of the works, installation of the plot, and the expression of the theme. It is the unique narrative perspective, narrative mode and narrative persons that make this masterpiece expand thought space, strengthen artistic charm, and give it permanent artistic vitality.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wuthering Heights, pluralism, narrative perspective, narrative mode, narrative persons
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