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On The Art Of Comedy Jane Austen's Novels

Posted on:2009-07-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H M LiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360242485982Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Jane.Austen endures the British modern times woman of letters who compares favorably with literature great master Shakespeare, her novel take at that time other provinces middle class women's marriage as a theme, has discussed female's in love and marriage self-awareness discovery process. Exquisite comedy art is the Austen novel treasure, it has molded a series of is not only the typological is also but many individuality characteristic the comedy character, while like the play has constructed each one vivid comedy story, also carries on the taunt superficially ingeniously to common custom hundred condition, has manifested the writer to the life profound ponder. This article plans six novels which completes by Austen is an example, from the characterization, the play expression means that instead satirizes aspects and so on technique to discuss its novel comedy art, and tries from the subjective and objective factor to begin, to explain the Austen comedy art the formation reason and analyzes its practical significance.This article divides into six parts, besides the foreword and the conclusion, the middle four chapters is the elaboration key point.The foreword is the full text actor's opening words, mainly summarizes Austen's in world history of literature status, reviews her literary production life briefly, pointed out that comedy art is its novel important charm is.The first chapter divides three to elaborate in the novel the comedic characterization law. First, writer's each work can present equivocal changeable "the sketch character" as well as is unitary, lacks the change"the cartoon character". The sketch character is treats carves the mold the positive image, has the happy quality and the consummation personality. And in the novel cartoon character is receives the taunt the object, so as to they absurd and stupid often are the writer the manufacture comedy effect source material; Also one kind of cartoon character, Austen's processing technique has ambiguity - - already taunts them to be ignorant, to be stupid, also holds the sympathy to its situation. The sketch character equivocal changeable characteristics display, their disposition had a development and the consummation process, the writer also carries on to their individuality shortcoming has ridiculed, the taunt. The sketch character and the cartoon character are form a nice contrast wonderfully, each its in the novel, formed one to fill with the comedy breath the character character and style picture.The second chapter similarly divides into three, from aspects and so on language utilization, novel structure, narrative way elaborated the Austen novel play expression means separately. First, this article believed that what Austen creates for the novel character is belongs to them to be in sole possession, is from heart, stems from the life the language, they have the play language characteristic. In addition, the novel is also following the play structure organization pattern, and using is anxious, play expression means and so on crisis or contradictory conflict establishment, misunderstanding, coincidence, comparison, lets the entire story be colorful, exciting. Furthermore, in Austen's novel, the comedy character's all behavior motive, the point of view is the straightforward development in ours front, not covers up and camouflages, this play's-like narrative way enables the reader to have a more appropriate understanding to the story character's comedy richly colorful inner world.The third chapter first from the character portray, the scene describes two aspects to give an example separately to elaborate instead satirizes the technique in the novel splendid utilization, explained that is between the full use language representation and the content tensity is different with the character portray, the scene description stresses on the tensity which contains through the language full demonstration scene itself, maps instead satirizes the huge understanding space and the esthetic space. The second section analyzes instead satirizes takes the rhetoric way the significance. With the characterization, the play expression means compare, instead satirizes the technique without doubt is one kind has the esthetic value the comedy performance way, it brings is not purely happy smiling, but is interweaving sadly happy and so on complex mood smiling. At the same time, instead satirizes the technique to be helpful promotes the self-main body consciousness in the reader, stands in the aloof position, indifferent and the sober reason comes in the contemplation object world by own other contradictory being out of balance.The fourth chapter divides into two, first obtains from the subjective and objective factor, to explain that Austen forms the comedic novel creation characteristic by no means accidentally, the family atmosphere, the growth experience and at that time the society cultural context and so on had had the pivotal influence to her literary production, she in inherits in the foundation has made the developing development to the novel comedy art. The second section narrated and commented the Austen comedy art practical significance, pointed out that it is the writer understood the world, the feeling become aware the life one way, she attempts between the rationality and was romantic finds a balance point, sought for the true meaning which in the mind lived, and advocated that came the contemplation by the tolerant spirit self-and other people; In the novel, Austen contrasts femininely by many kinds of comedy art technique subjective can move the spirit, manifests raising high which its female realizes.This article last part is a conclusion, summarizes pointed out that Austen's comedy art is take the rational principle as the instruction, looking from the history of literature development process, she has inherited the 18th century initiation literature rationalism and the realism creation principle, has made the preparation for the 19th century realistic fiction's high tide.
Keywords/Search Tags:comedy art, characterization, play technique, instead satirizes the technique, rational principle, Austen
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