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Yin And Yang, The Two Worldly Joys And Sorrows Of Male Human

Posted on:2012-05-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z M FanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205330335958592Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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In modern times when the economy and culture is tansforming, it is imperative to affirm the traditional cultural value and correct people's understanding and attitudes to the primitive ghost culture. Man-ghost love is a historical and cultural phenomenon, and it is of great significance in knowing, studying, coming down and developing ghosts culture. As one of the most important types of stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio which is the masterpiece of classical chinese novels, man-ghost love stories play an important role in China's ghost literature. Therefore, the man-ghost love stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio have great research values. Although people have made some encouraging results on the subject, there are still many blanks left, also some insufficient aspects and we are especially lack of an integrating, systematic research paper. For this reason, the thesis tries hard to make up the regret and hopes to deepen and make a breakthrough in analyzing the man-ghost love's unique charm. Based on specific texts and set in ghost culture, the thesis does exquisite research on the man-ghost love stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from the standpoints of image-building, the connotations of structure models, and love's types, love's characteristics and love's ideal, etc.The thesis is made up of 5 chapters. Chapter1:Introduction. Introduction aims at presenting the frame of the research topic, among which the definition of the research object is the most important one. The author defines the man-ghost love story in terms of its prototype—ghost's marriage. According to this definition, the author thinks there are 19 man-ghost love stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio in total, and display them in a form. In chapter2 the thesis states the cultural context of man-ghost love stories in three aspects:ghost belief, customs of ghost marriage, man's curiosity and social fashion in order to explain its influences on novelists' writing, to set background matting for understanding the man-ghost love stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Chapter3 and chanpter4 are the key sections of the paper. Both are based on texts. Chapter 3 mainly discusses the molding art of the female ghost images and the connotations of characters'relationship models in the man-ghost love stories of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. These stories create many colorful and vivid female ghost images on which personality and commonness are combined skillfully, and human nature and ghosts' spectre are also united organically, while "a scholar+a female ghost" reveals male egotistical discourse dominates literary creation and male literati are desperate for the realization of self-worth and releasing their repressed emotions. Chapter4 chiefly explores the emotional world about men and ghosts in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. At first, the article classifies the stories concerned into four types. Then by comparing with the love stories between man and other aliens, find out the unique agape features between man and ghost, that is:man-ghost love is realistic in its generating, is satisfactory in end, and is gradual in the process of its development. On the basis of that, the paper probes into the male literati's ideal love and their complex inner world.In Chapter5, Longitudinally in contrast with the man-ghost love stories in the two periods of Wei Jin and Six Dynasties and Tang Song Dynasties, we try to chase the man-ghost novels' evolutional and developing process in ancient Chinese history of literature, and summarize its inheritance and exeeding to history, and after that, the thesis draws a conclusion:The man-ghost love stories in stories of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio create glaring brilliance because of its standing on the shoulders of "giant".
Keywords/Search Tags:Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, man-ghost love, images of the female ghost, loves between man and ghost, exeeding
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