The Image Narrating Of Yan Geling' Novels

Yan Geling is a famous Chinese-American writer.She is not only prolific in the creation, but also gets many great prizes.Meanwhile,many of her novels and short stories were seccessfully edited to films.As a professional writer,Yan Geling has worked in hollywood, and she always takes the Film adaptation work as well as adapted many of her own works.For these close contacts with films,there are lots of distinctive characteristics of images in her novels.From the point of image art,this paper studayed the characters of image narrating and its literature meaning on the ground of her works ci xing di cao di,fu sang,and di jiu ge guafu.Yan Geling's novels have the characteristics of montage narratings in plot development and details.Its plot is connected by scences and the skiping scenes caused suspense,which gives the readers a great deal of imagination.The parallel scenes always put different plots together and produce profound signifigance;The narrataor often exaggerate some details to express the mind and the themes.It also strengthen the emotions so as to depress readers greatly.There're visual-thinking and sound-thinking in Yan Geling's novels.In sound-thinking, it includes a kind of dialogue with both voice and picture and the effect of the off-screen voice narrating.Its dialogue is always together with the figures' actions.Also,the off-screen voice narrating means that the ongoing dialogues are confrounted with the inner monlogue,which expressed a deep phycological mind as well as a deep culture meaning.In visual thinking,Yan Geling is good at visual imagination in creating works and she often gives the visual elements a deep literary meaning.On the ground of traditional descriptions of expressions and actions,she increased new image art to them so that the traditional skills have a largest capacity;Yan also gives color and prop a symbolic Signifigance; In descriping scenes,the writer often uses the lighting to render the surroundings and reference lens to higtlight a certain scene.All that leave readers a broad visual imagination.The reasons for the image narrating in Yan's novels are not only by chance.The first cause of it lies in Yan Geling's personal experiences.It also has a stright relationship wih the western wisual culture,especialy the great development of image art like film.As a literary narrating skills,the image narrating has a double meaning.On one hand,it adapted the readers' reading tendency.On the other hand,it adds thought and meaning to the current visual culture,which is easy to become superficial and clastic.