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Analysis Of Chinese Contemporary Fantasy Fiction Under The Vision Of Literary Anthropology

Posted on:2009-09-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S L ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278971356Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Literature exists as human accomplishment all the time, because it meets the needs of the human mind and emotion. Combining the specific constructive way of "The Secondary World" of Chinese Fantasy Fiction, this thesis starts the discourse upon "imaginary human existence", by discussing the "fabrication" theory in the contemporary emerging interdisciplinary subject—Literary Anthropology. The thesis provides in-depth interpretation respectively to the remarkable features—imagination, fabrication, taboos, witchcraft, enchantment which compose the Fantasy Novels' content and form from the point of the Literary Anthropology. Analyzing the function of soul treatment of Fantasy novels, the thesis points out the anthropological meanings of "The Secondary World" through "fabrication" used in the Fantasy novels, and discusses pervasion and influence to daily life and the change to the existing sociocultural consumption by the fantasy culture. The text of the Fantasy Fiction is full of tension and a mixture of all times and all over the world, it plays a positive significance role in helping people surveyed the world,the civilization and the humanity and exploring the possible ways to extend the manner of human being and rectifying the inertial of thinking "only in reason".
Keywords/Search Tags:Literary Anthropology, Fantasy Fiction, fabricate, The Secondary World
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