The Denouenment Art Of Novels Of Ming And Qing Dynasties

In Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the amount of Chinese classical novels growing larger and larger, writers'technique reached the peak. The various themes such as Historical Romance, Saga, Mythical and Secular Human novels made the structure of the novels more diverse than ever. As a part of structure, the denouement also formed a unique narrative mode. Besides the original function of closing the meaning of text, the denouement of novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties breakthrough the previous model, and try to do in-depth on plot closing and narration, which showed the reality of the work via the dilemma of creative emotion, strengthened the readers'effect via reversal of aesthetic style, heightened the severity via narrative rhythm, and reached an unprecedented peak with the creating and exploring by writers.Tracing back of the denouement of major novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties, this paper studies the narration thesis, specific denouement mode and cultural values combining with the function of denouement in structure. There are all together five parts in this paper:The Introduction part describes the study panorama of the denouement art of novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and introduces the westerner's achievements on denouement. This chapter limits the range of study on the novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties, following by which analyzes the difference between 'denouement' and 'ending', pointing out that 'denouement' is a concept of section but not a dot. Furthermore, the research ideas and methods are simply introduced.The body text is divided into three chapters. The first part of the body text talked about the structural function of the denouement art, which laid basis for the subsequent analysis. Then the analysis about the relationship between the structure, opening and the denouement, the different ending ways of various structures, the critical point of denouement are carried out. Finally the simple types of the denouement are generalized.The second part of the body text is to find the narrative mode of novels with different themes. The paper picks the four important kinds of novels as examples:the Historical Romance, Saga, Mythical and Secular Human. The characteristics of the denouement are concluded through analyzing some specific endings.The third part focuses on the cultural values of the denouement art of novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties. By relating to the context of the time and the national aesthetic psychology, this part introduces the literary and cultural values from four sides:Philosophy, Religion, Ethics and the Society. It explores the social cultural function of the denouement in the interactive analyses between social history and literary fiction.The Conclusion part sums up the regular pattern of this paper. In order to get prepared for further studies, this part emphasized the narrative theories of the denouement again, pointing out that by connecting the modern narrations and the classical novels will push the study to a further development and will enrich the theories of the denouement art of Chinese novels.