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Metaphor's Connotation And Enlightenment Of Zhang Ailing's "Legend"

Posted on:2009-07-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242988133Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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For Zhang Ailing's "Legend", previous research has been very mature, but very few people cut it from the perspective of metaphor. Reading all the works of Zhang Ailing attentively, the author finds a very close relationship between metaphor and Zhang Ailing's "Legend". The author will divide four issues to launch the full text, and further explore the metaphor's connotation and the enlightenment of the "Legend".The first is why Zhang Ailing writes with metaphor. The auther thinks there are about three reasons. First is the result of Talent. Aristotle called the user who was good at metaphor as a genius. Zhang Ailing 's childhood carried "Genius Dream" and there were many metaphors in "the Dream of Red Mansions" that was the best for Zhang Ailing. This imperceptibly made metaphor into her way of thinking. Secondly, Zhang Ailing was doubt with shielding its original meaning in the cultural for the spread of classical process about life, so she would like to discover the true meaning of life by metaphors, the most primitive human way of thinking. Again, Zhang Ailing questioned about the language of own dualistic thinking and she would like to use metaphors to discover the real world between the polarization.The second, how does she use metaphors, and namely the metaphors involve scope. From the works, Zhang Ailing's metaphor is not only reflected in her novels' theory, but infiltrated in the style of her novels. From the novels, the contents have metaphor sentences and the titles of the articles have their own certain metaphorical. From the functional perspective, this not only reflects her rhetoric function, but also reflects her cognitive function and philosophical enlightenment function.The third is what is the connotation of the "Legend'"s metaphor. The author tries her best to find the world of Zhang Ailing's metaphor, on the basis of carding the metaphor in the text of the sentence. In my opinion: This is a serious male vitality shrank world, and female sexuality was very sheltered in it. Its camouflage has direct reason and also has in-depth cultural reason. Entering the patriarchal society humanity has gradually formed the strong view of female sexuality in the shelter, but it has also split the men's own personality.Fourth, the "Legend" leaves people's enlightenment. This section focuses on exploring Zhang Ailing thinking what kind of metaphysical question with the aid of the metaphor. Cutting from the details, taking the reference system by the primary world, and thinking from the style change of "city" enlightenment to "Legend" rewriting, the author estimates carefully Zhang Ailing's question regarding the male civilization ,then further to initiate both sexes survival circumstances presses much about the male civilization.
Keywords/Search Tags:Zhang Ailing, Legend, Metaphor, metaphor thinking, philosophy Enlightenment
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