Study On Bai Xianyong's Narrative Skills Of Short Stories

Bai Xianyong is a well-known Chinese writer both in China and oversea. He created thirty-six short stories which made up three short story books: Lonely Seventeen, Taibei Characters and New Yorker, and he was called "Contemporary Chinese wonder in the field of short stories". About Bai Xianyong's artistic achievement of short stories, many scholars have made deep study. This paper discuss Bai Xianyong's narrative skills of short stories from the perspective of rhetoric narratology, and refer to Susan S.Lanser's feminist narrative theory and Bakhtin's dialogue theory, aiming at summarizing useful means which make his works successful through analyzing his writing technique. The thesis is divided into such three parts:Chapter One make division on narrative type of Bai Xianyong's short stories from three aspects separately: if narrator is dramatized, if narrator's position and point are consistent with writer, if there is a fix perspective.Chapter Two analyze the narrative voice of Bai Xianyong's short stories from three aspects of authorial voice, personal voice and communal voice.Chapter Three discuss the language skills of Bai Xianyong's short stories according to Bakhtin's dialogue theory, display that Bai Xianyong's story language is a diverse heteroglossia system, and different language form inner dialogue relation among them.Every chapter's analysis is based on the works, and depend on some relative theories, try to combine the text analysis with theory explanation, and reveal the forming process of Bai Xianyong's short stories art that is choosing appropriate form and skills according to different subjects and the demand of theme to get the perfect unity of content and form.