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To Study The Style Of Qiu Xiaolong's Detective Novels

Posted on:2009-10-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S H HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245485062Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Qiu Xiaolong is one of the representative authors who emigrated to the United States in the 1980s.He have published five detective novels in English by now, whose background is Contemporary China's social life, and which take Chen Chao detective for the protagonist. These detective novels have been well received by the people of the world. His writing practice is unique and successful, compared to many Chinese American writers. Our predecessors have made much discussion on Qiu Xiaolong's detective novels content, genre and so on. But the research into his unique writing style still needs to be in-depth. Therefore, I will take the style of Qiu Xiaolong's detective novels as the object of study, to do more in-depth research into the show forms of this unique style and causes, as well as the writer's aesthetic reflected form the style.Qiu Xiaolong puts more than 100 Chinese classical poetries into the rationality detective novels, and created a person who is not only a rationality detective but also a romantic poet, poetry translator, gourmet , forming a unique writing style embodying rationality and aesthetic. The formation of this style is closely related to Qiu Xiaolong's bilingual cultural resources and rich life resources, as well as the American readers' aesthetic need. Meanwhile, this style embodies Qiu Xiaolong's reflection on the Chinese novel figures in the 1950s and 1960s and the pursuit of the ideal characters in novels. Qiu Xiaolong's unique writing style has important significance .It tells us how to read Chinese American writer's works and contemporary Chinese fiction how to get more readers in the world, as well as how to treat the succession of the Chinese traditional novel style...
Keywords/Search Tags:Qiu Xiaolong, Writing Style, rationality and aesthetic
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