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The Research On The New Century Chinese Fantasy Novels Narrative

Posted on:2013-12-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y C ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330374491512Subject:Literature and art
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Recently,with rapid development of Internet,Fantasy Novel has quickly capturedthe hearts of milions of readers by network,and created a large mounts.Some of themare good fictions,for example,‘Zi Chuan’、‘Biography of Wu Kong’、‘Sou Shen Ji’and so on.In contrast,academic research on it lag relatively far behind the literature’sdevelopment.It is necessary to strength the theoretical study and analysis on FantasyNovel so as to provid a good academic atmosphere for the healthy development of it.This paper takes close perspective of specific ficitons,meanwhile it combinestheoretical analysis to discuss narrative festures of Fantasy Novels, from three aspectsas following:narrative mode, narrative ethics and narrative languages..Chapter One:Preface.To summarize the Fantasy Novel and introduce the contentand development of it,as well as the current research in theoretical circles.Andfurtherly explain the method and subject of the research.And the last,clarify thebackground and significance of the research.Chapter Two: The narrative pattern of Fantasy Novel.Analying the narrativemode of the Fantastic Novel according to the mothod of Propp,a Russian scholar,whouses thirty-one kinds of function method to analyse the Russian folk tales.Select30representative fantasy novels as the research subject, then we get13basic functions.The basic functions constitute the narrative patterns.And these patterns can besummarized into four stages as following:the life before the magic experience;themagic experience;the adventure behind the magic experience;an end: a newbeginning.Chapter Three: The narrative ethics of Fantasy Novel.Fantasy Novel developednew system of moral and ethical in the fictitious world.There are conflicts betweenthe new system and traditional ethical system.On the other hand,the hero of the novelshowed the recognition of the traditional ethics.Fantasy narrative explains the hero’smoral dilemma by showing the differences between the individual and social ethics inmoral values, then revealed the transformation of modern people’s thoughts.Ethicsutopia in the novel reflects the writer’s good wishes and estabilshment of ideal ethicalsociety.Chapter Four: The narrative language of Fantasy Novel.The post modernismcultural have great influences in fantasy narration language.The innovative language form and the humorous language style were catered to the public’s aestheticorientation and the demand for entertainment.From the era background,combines with the specific examples to explain thesupre-entertainment of narrative language. And we should take steps to corrent themisuse of punctuations and other wrong language phenomenons in the FantasyNovels.Conclusion:The Fantasy Novel won the majority of readers by its uniquecharm.Analying the narrative characteristics of the Fantasy Novel is good for currentliterary.As a young literature type,people should hold an objective,impartial andtolerant attitude towards the Fantasy Novels and give it the corrent guidance andstandard.
Keywords/Search Tags:Fantastic Novel, Narrative theory, Ethics, Language
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