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On The Narrative Art Of Austin

Posted on:2008-03-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F X MengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360215971778Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Shakespeare drama is the spirit treasure of British literature, Europe literature and even world literature. When a british ideologist studies Jane Austen, he mentions Shakespeare and Austen in the same breath in the aspect of art accomplishment. Famous literature and art critic George Henry Lewes likens the person to "Shakespeare in prose". It can be seen that Austen artistic achievement is to be a universally recognized. The novel originates from unrealistic stories of the British United Kingdom in the 16 and 17 Century. When Jane Austen was born, the novel was not independent. The authoress has got rid of the unrealistic and exaggerated factors that exist in the novel and adopted actualism to express stories about love ,marriage life early in the 19 century of United Kingdom as the novel main part successfully. How structure writing, how narrate a story, how the novel becomes the real "novel"? Jane Austen makes irreplaceable contribution to the development of the novel in the way that she created narrate art. The article summarizes narrating principle and narrating characteristic of Austen novel art and these principles , the characteristic cause of formation in the way of analyzing Pride & Prejudice.Writer's narrating principle decides her novel style. Every novel of Austen has its advantages. Although the first four novels is anonymous when they were published, Austen works were recognized by readers. The famous Scott Walter praised greatly anonymous novel Emma and her author. Austen artistic style is peculiar and owns its discipline.Thesis Part I expatiates narrating principle which runs through in Austen novel. This part is discussed as follow. The novel is marked with concise lucid and lively style or manner of writing, in the each aspect including selecting material, structure, even personage dignity and conversation. The entirety embodies two aspects. Surface structure is organic entirety and the novel is arranged by the logic which is character characteristic compatibility. Reason is the characteristic of the novel. The novel displays authoress understands life , especial marriage. critic David appraises she has been Marxist in Max. In order to expound her understanding of live, she focused on the eternal literature topic of conversation——human nature and show life known by her in the way of visual personage image and absolutely lifelike character characteristic. This is a organic overall interwovenness. I will try to set forth it.Thesis Part II expatiates narrating characteristic of Austen novel art in the way of analyzing Pride & Prejudice. Through analyzing key element dichotomy method of novel art——Person image and structure and often used "novel-rization originality letter " in the novel, Narrating characteristic is summarized and summed up. The article borrows two novel narrating concept "functionality novel person" and "mentality novel person " to explain my point of view. With "The speculum " and the "spotlight" assuming allegory, characterization of the novel emphasizes stereoscopic and concentrating summarization. Narrate sound coming from the writer influences readers'impress of novel person images. The novel structure has its own feature. Narrating pattern of the novel seems as the branch converges main stream. Making turn, suspense and linking up in the text are ingeniously applied to represent Austen adept narrate artifice.Thesis Part III is the exploration forming cause of characteristic narrate to Austen novel in the three literatures inheriting and affecting, Richard a silent influence to Austen and unique art thought aspects. First,second factors are regarded as external cause, latter factor is internal cause. External cause is conditions, it is indispensability. Internal cause plays decisive role. If it is the same external cause, no unique art thought has never existed unique Austen narrating of art. Besides, Austen times thought, the culture and literature philosophy aesthetic ideology are conducive to our deep cognition of the art charm of this classical literature great master.
Keywords/Search Tags:Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice, Narrating artifice, Novel structure tactics, Actualism
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