A Study On The Narrative Research Of Tao Yuan-ming's Poems And Articles

Tao Yuan-ming had been considered as a lyric poet, and his poems and articles were frequently researched what have been placed in the lyrical tradition of Chinese literature. It is an indisputable fact that Tao Yuan-ming's poems and articles contain rich narrative factors. In view of this, the paper is trying to scan and expound Tao Yuan-ming's poems and articles with the fresh methodology that narrative theory provided. The main body of paper has five chapters: Chapter One ascertains Tao Yuan-ming's create motive and narrative standpoint as narrator from some factors which restrict specific narrative behavior, such as personal psychological influence, social and historical factor. Chapter Two inspects narrative perspective, implied author, focalization and focalization zero of Tao Yuan-ming's poems and articles, exploring Tao Yuan-ming's true feelings, the inheritance from predecessors and innovation in his works by the method of comparison. Chapter Three inspects the narrative time of Tao Yuan-ming's poems and articles, try to prospect the influence of narrator subjectivity on Tao Yuan-ming's narrative text by the analysis of Tao Yuan-ming subjective inputs and control of narrative time. Chapter Four inspects the narrative structure of Tao Yuan-ming's poems and articles, probing deep connotations and life force that behind the surface . Chapter Five focalizes on metaphorical narrative of Tao Yuan-ming works. Because of adopting metaphorical narrative, Tao Yuan-ming's works present implicative and euphemism lasting appeal, expanding narrative capacity and also enhancing the difficulty of text decoding.