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"Body Narrative" For Nietzsche's Poetic Philosophy

Posted on:2011-12-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P JiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305465832Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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In the process of reflective modernity, the status of body has constantly being highlighted. And "body narrative" generated in the mutual influence of literary and theory of Body. However scholars has been ambiguous in the definition of "Body Narrative",that resulted in the signs of misunderstanding or misinterpretation which arose in the process when China's literary critics quoted the body narrative theory and explained text with the theory, and equated the body narrative with "body writing", "writing for lust" and "functional somatic writing." In the few text about the body narrative, the body narrative is understood as the influence body exerted on text content. Furthermore, the relationship between body and art forms has been neglected for a long time in the analysis of body narrative. Currently, academic pay more research on Nietzsche's thought than his text. As the originator of "body theory",although Nietzsche didn't clearly stated the concept of "Body Narrative" during his lifetime,we can still detect skeleton from his text about body narrative.I think that the concept of "Body Narrative" in Nietzsche's text is a unique narrative style between the body and the narrative. This article focused on the spectrum of the body theory, Nietzsche's concept of the "Body",and the concept of "Body Narrative" in Nietzsche's text to study the unique "body narrative",which is the core of Nietzsche's poetic philosophy.This paper is in three parts. The first part in philosophical dimension researched the variance history of body status from ancient Greek philosophy to post-modern cultural context, and completed the grooming of body theory within the framework of "the presence of body has been forgotten" and "body awareness".The second part focused on the discussion of Nietzsche's concept of the body, which regarded will to power as the core. This section is the theoretical base for the demonstration of Nietzsche's "body narrative" in hereinafter. On the basis of poetic philosophy, the third part emphasized on the study of the "body narrative" in Nietzsche's works both in content and form. Through the analysis of the "body narrative" in Nietzsche's works, this text put forward that although Nietzsche has not yet established the theory of the body narrative, these features revealed in his works which were different from other philosophical texts are important components of Nietzsche body narrative.
Keywords/Search Tags:the concept of body, body narrative, will to power, poetic philosophy
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