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On The Peculiarity Of Narrative Art In Pride And Prejudice

Posted on:2007-01-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H H YunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185951561Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Pride and Prejudice as a realism literary works, in the past people more focused on content research, frequently linked it to the prevailing social and cultural backgrounds, and looked for true reflection to socio-political, economic, ethical, cultural and other aspects. This paper focused on its form and mainly explored its unique narrative art.Literary narrative peculiarity of Pride and Prejudice represent in: 1 The peculiarity of narrative persons. Austin breaks through single narrative persons in the traditional novel, he combine the objective third-person omniscient narration with the limited third-person narration, and form narrative style of alternating between objective and subjective. When using the omniscient privilege, concealed their attitude as far as possible, strive for becoming objective influence to readers; In a limited third-person narration, using focal-characters frequent contact with the readers, obtain the readers' sympathy maximize, bring the readers into the works world. 2 The peculiarity of narrative mode. Telling is the main narrative mode in traditional fiction, at the first time Austin extensively use the scene as narrative mode of the novel. Scene is the primary means of showing as the most direct way of showing life. Through the scenes overlapping prominently show the theme of article, mould figures, and with regard to the objective imitation of reality make the readers to be personally on the scene. At the same time, Austin also creates a subjective world of works figures through letters, and enhances the authenticity of the text.Pride and Prejudice formed the narrative results of alternating between objective and subjective by making use of unique narrative persons and narrative mode in the works. Its objectivity opened the distance between readers and works, narrator and works, narrator and readers, made narration objective and calm; Its subjectivity eliminated the barriers between readers, brought the readers into the world of works, readers and the figures in the works with the same sense of happiness and sadness, thus increased the authenticity of the text.This unique narrative art of Austin made the Pride and Prejudice appear objectiveand calm, but realistic moving, and created a new field of narrative art.
Keywords/Search Tags:Pride and Prejudice, narrative art, peculiarity
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