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Lao She's Novel Comedy Factors

Posted on:2011-03-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X H WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360305959445Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Lao She's novels were known for humor, for this reason, Lao She was given the title of "master of humor." Therefore, a lot of research theses on Lao She Research are about his humorous articles. Humor is just an advanced form of comedy, there are various comic factors in Lao She's articles, including humor, satire, funny, witty, dissonant language, and combine of tragedy and comedy elements. This paper mainly discusses these comic elements resented in Lao She's novels.This article is divided into two chapters. The author defines these comic factors and analyzes the significance of these comic elements in Chapter 1. Humor factors account for a large proportion of Lao She's novels, which indicate a philosophical aesthetic subject's mind, gentle and tolerant attitude, and humorous mocking the shortcomings of human nature and social life, with the feelings of detached indifference. With humor, Lao She demonstrated symbolic character flaws of human nature and character of the symbolic meaning of cultural deficiencies. irony is a method to tear the mark of no value things with the use of exaggeration, and comic books. Though it is not so serious, sharp, sharp as the irony in tragedy, however, it is able to point out problems. Approach to satire, through his novels, Lao She showed little people's self-esteem, the noble women in the Chinese traditional culture, the personality of the community of Chinese People and the worriment about the intellectual self-reflection in the dark society. Inheriting the comic factors of ancient China, in which people's actions with little meanings, however, it makes Lao She's novel with features of slick. Wit mainly refers to the use of language, including homophones, puns, etc.; inconsistent language mainly about the language Rhetoric, such as metaphor, which are with meanings of a certain sarcastic. Combination of tragedy and comedy factor is the new feature of a modern comedy, in Lao She's novel reached the level reached a pinnacle. Lao She used this approach to the ethical and cultural reflection and reprimand. However, these comic factors in Lao She's fiction are not independent existence, but blending with each other.The second chapter is about Lao She's own personality, mother and people around. Then explore the impact of Beijing accent, Chinese classical culture, the impact of British culture and socio-political factors in the formation of comedy.The conclusion part is about the human soul care and social care brought to people by Lao She through his comic factors and accepted by the masses in popular forms. And the meanings of the comedy elements in Lao She's novels and the shortcomings of this thesis.
Keywords/Search Tags:Lao She's novels, Comedy, comic factor, reason
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