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On The Rhetoric Tactic Of "Dream" In Wild Grass

Posted on:2011-01-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360308470529Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Wild Grass is a philosophical building in Lu Xun's life, exhibiting Lu Xun's actual and complex spirit. However, what unique rhetorical skills have been used by Lu Xun to describe his philosophical contemplation and show his actual and complex spirit?When the method of rhetoric in a broad sense introduced into the study of Wild Grass, we could find out "Dream" is a very important carrier that structures the Wild Grass life philosophy building and revealing Lu Xun's self-soul. It is interesting that Wild Grass describes "dream", not only including these "I dream of……" overt dreamlands, but the traces of dream, dream-like thoughts shadow, dream-like atmosphere and all kinds of characteristics of dream are also elements of "Dream" of Wild Grass."Dream" is a red line which always runs through the Wild Grass. The traces of dream, dream-like thoughts shadow, dream-like atmosphere and various of characteristics of dream make 24 dispersive essays into a complete structural system. Because of designing "dream" uniquely, the numerous experiences and thinkings about life lurch considered by Lu Xun could have a good place for everyone.Lu Xun would build the edifice of life philosophy at last."Dream" lays a solid logical basis for Wild Grass, which forms rhetoric style of "repeated narrative". Because it is very a common phenomenon that people in the dream speak repeatedly the same words, suffer the same experiences, and witness the similar scenes. Lu Xun used this common sense of life, described repeatedly the similar words, the similar imageries and the same behaviors in Wild Grass, which formed rhetoric Style of "repeated narrative". By means of repeated hints, Lu Xun not only showed the soul of despair and the sense of loss naturally, but also made Wild Grass reach to the artistic effect that readers could appreciate and think.Lu Xun chose rhetoric tactics of "ambiguity and ceasing" in that its logic foudation is "Dream" with innate characteristics of ambiguity, obscurity and instability. Therefore, Lu Xun set up dreamlands constantly, used narrative means of ambiguity and ceasing, which resulted in narrative blank. True or false characteristics of "Dream" not only met Lu Xun's contradictory demands of writing of "describe himself" and "care about the readers", but also let Wild Grass give the readers endless pondering space. In the process of readers understanding "dream", the features of complexity, polysemy and ambiguity in the Wild Grass would emerge.Anti-conventional and non-logical features of "Dreams" provides reasonable logical guarantee that Lu Xun used rhetoric mean of "absurd narrative" in Wild Grass. By portraying various of absurd things and phenomena, Lu Xun expressed the clear cognition on the absurd and truly life choice value, percepted deeply about the absurd existence and absurd human nature, observed carefully on the uncertainty and irregular characteristics of the human's life process.Rhetorical skills of "Dreams" and "story" narrative combined in the Wild Grass, which forms the narration of "Saying things in the dream, storys happening in the dream". It shows the multiple style's charm. Saying things in the dream hided Lu Xun's anger emotions,and added the critical mass. Because "my words" in the dream isn't authoritative, readers are free to judge and choose, which Lu Xun placed the readers and narrator on the equal dialogic position. Storys happening in the dream also let author imagine more broadly in the sea of dream-like, which added unusual changing color to Wild Grass. Moreover, Lu Xun set up the ideas of passion and reason, hope and despair, conviction and suspicion in the "dream" of Wild Grass, where created rhetoric art of dialogism. "Dream" is uncertain, and "dialogism" is open.Therefore, Wild Grass is not a stereotyped conclusion to the reader but an unfinished space;it isn't a closed structure but an open state.In this way, the "dream" is one of the central rhetorical tactics in Wild Grass. Rhetorical tactics of "Dream" in the Wild Grass not only fully reflects the creative temperament of Lu Xun as a mature writer, but also is a factor of great importance which makes both content and form of the Wild Grass approach to perfection.
Keywords/Search Tags:Lu Xun, Wild Grass, "Dream", Rhetoric
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