"qiludeng Artistic Achievements

This thesis analyzes and evaluates the artistic achievements of Qi Lu Deng in four aspects: Li Luyuan's views on literature, the narrative structure, the character portrayal, and the language use in the novel.The Preface includes the explanation of the subject's selection and its significance, a summary of previous studies on this subject, and a brief introduction of the outline, the theme and the ideological significance of the novel.Chapter One discusses Li Luyuan's views on literature, the causation of Li's views on literature, "Zai Dao" and "realistic writing", through research into Li's family background, his career and thoughts. The contradictions between his literature views and his practical production are revealed, and the causes of the contradictions are analyzed.Chapter Two analyzes the narrative structure of Qi Lu Deng, points out the novel's featherlike structure, and discusses this structure's originality and artistic value. Then the author expounds Qi Lu Deng's completeness and fineness in narration in four aspects: three main paragraphs, happy ending, foreshadowing and echo, the plot's insertion and transition. Meanwhile, the author explores the profound reason of the structure and Li Luyuan's artistic ingenuity hi relation to his ideology, his literature views and the novel's producing process.Chapter Three discusses Qi Lu Deng's achievements in character portrayal. The novel describes more than 200 characters, involving living status and mentality of various people in that society. Qi Lu Deng is unprecedented in the history of Chinese novel with regard to its width in society reflection. The various artistic techniques in portraying characters, such as description of environment, character's typicallanguage and mentality are analyzed in this chapter with emphasis on the novel's success in character portrayal.Chapter Four analyzes the novel's language. Qi Lu Deng's language has distinctive feature in narrations, descriptions and comments. The most remarkable feature is the skillful usage of Henan dialects, which brings special style to the novel. This chapter discusses the use of Henan dialects in three aspects: vocabulary, proverbs and particle. The rhetorical variety, especially the ingenious usage of metaphor, is analyzed at the same time.The final part is an overall evaluation of Qi Lu Deng, for the sake of its position's reestablishment in the history of Chinese novel and Chinese literature.