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Plot And The Possibilities Of Narration

Posted on:2008-09-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z B WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215493199Subject:Literature and art
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It might be the most fashionable clich6 in the field of narratology that narration surmounts cultures, countries and histories, and floods in our daily experience just as the air does. Yet it is not so difficult to figure out the narrative nature of social texts, and it is also not the significance of literature study .The most essential thing is to figure out the very way in which certain narrative natures were built., and the factors that was emphasized or camouflaged intentionally or unconsciously during the construction process. Plot of a given text is responsible to conquer the contingent events, to reorganize and delete the unnecessary ingredients, and to entrust with the text by specific significance and moral intentions. The construction of plot is of great importance to the narrative nature.The recent development of Structuralism narratology has brought unique skills to the discussions of plot. The texture and internal veins of plot get another kind of inspect. The structuralism methods put much more attention to the internal texture and writing grammars of plot, especially when compared with the traditional stresses on aesthetics and subjectivity. A flittering symptom of historical principle has appeared inside structuralism. Because not only can it inspect plot in details but also it can move towards culture study from the detailed analyses. The excavation of nan'ative establishments is the starting point of this act, namely from form to history, and from language to discourse.Plot, is not a self-evident concept of essentialism. In fact, on the concept of plot, lots of academic rusts has been accumulated. Being studied separately in story and discourse aspects, the same signifier has presented different signifieds and validities in different contexts. Pedigree being detected,we can further the study of plot, including its interior and exterior parts, for instance, the grammar of it, the relations between plot and character, plot and verity, and the reason of its declines and its fate after that. To measure plot's future position in the formal experiments of narration, its power to exploit the possible dimensions of human existence is a major criterion.
Keywords/Search Tags:plot, narration, formal experiments, possibilities
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