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Myth, Second World, Fantasy - Tolkien Fairy Tale Creation Theory,

Posted on:2012-01-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L L ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205330335471716Subject:Literature and art
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JRR Tolkien for writing "Lord of the Rings" trilogy have attracted much attention,but his writing theory is not as popular as his works in China. In fact, for Tolkien's theory in the West has been very detailed and in-depth study of such care Seoul gold linguistics, Tolkien's fantasy literature of religious studies, and Tolkien to "Lord of the Rings" as the representative of the cultural studies. From Tolkien started writing, he has shown that:"I write those things classified as a fairy tale, it is because I am willing to write on this story and nothing else." Although most of the works of Tolkien's fantasy positioning literature, religious literature, mythology literature, but Tolkien in writing at the beginning, he positioned his work fairy tale. Although his fairy tales and myths of creation and religion are inextricably linked but the creation of fairy tales have their own unique characteristics and development track. In the Tolkien view, this fairy tale for thinking characteristic of children and happy children's literature in the form of transfer to better the spirit of each generation communication and dialogue to convey the human society has placed on the next generation of cultural expectations, it is a kind of meaning of life can improve the aesthetic value of the human spirit activities, through the fairy tale aesthetic pleasure to cultivate spiritual life and optimize the human world, not just the face of children's fairy tale writing, but the face of the entire human race. Tolkien's fairy tale is in this context provides us with a paradigm of the aesthetic nature of art practice, and his fairy tale view of the major academic works embodied in his "fairy tale theory" and a series of fairy tale creations such as "Hobbits "" Lord of the Rings "and so on.Fairy Tales for a nation so creativity is important, the development of Chinese literature has been aware of the cultural creativity of a nation has played a pivotal role. Like the whimsy of the children need fairy tales, in the chaos, the adults need fairy tales to comfort their souls, childlike innocence once they wake up on their re-creation of aesthetic education, especially those rooted in both traditional national, but also with international standards of fairy tales, but there are contemporary Chinese Fairy Tales drawbacks, not a work of world influence, and even many children within the country have also been left out of the reader not to mention the adults in the pursuit. Today Tolkien" Lord of the Rings "series was published," Harry Potter, "the world's largest hot fairy tales in Western literature can not be ignored in a wonderful work of literary theory in the development of Fairy Tales indelible meaning.Although the background of global prosperity and development of Chinese Fairy Tales Fairy Tales of increasing the number of writing style are becoming increasingly diverse, until now still no one works in the artistic achievements and influence on the adequate and the "Lord of the Rings" comparable to that of Western fairy tales, Tolkien Fairy Tales Fairy Tales theory can provide inspiration to learn from China, providing a wealth of indirect experience, enrich and improve our fairy tale creation theory, research in China under the Cultural Differences in Fairy Tales, cross-cultural perspective in order to take care of Fairy Tales of China has a very profound practical significance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Tolkien, myth, second world, fantasy feature
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