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On The Narrative Ethics Of Isaac Ba-shevis Singei’s Short Stories

Posted on:2013-01-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X X ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330377460020Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Isaac Bashevis Singer is American jewish writer,Ethical situation in his works isvery rich,Narrative art is also brilliant.The author intended to employ criticismmethods to analyse the narration ethical of singer’s unique short stories,That ismainly from the two levels:analyse it through the level of story ethics and narrativeethics.singer’s short stories can be divided into two catagories,a kind of his works isto depict polish jews life between before the second world war and during the secondworld war,anthers is to describe the trip American jews life after the second worldwar.Therefore,this thesis is described into the following three chapters.ChapterⅠ,first combs these two concepts of narrative、ethics,and then introducesthe narrative ethics criticism mode,and illuminates the criticism path of the narrativeethics in specific. The author boldly defined the narrative ethics,and put forward thevalue of the narrative mode as well as its shortcomings.The other two subsections aredescribed singer’s compex and unique ethics view as well as his narrative view.ChapterⅡ,discusses the story ethics of singer’s short stories in detail.Unfoldaround the ethical form of the polish Jews and the United States Jews.The polish Jewseither warmth guarded traditional ethics,or critical questioned the traditional ethics,orbeyonded and returned to the traditional ethics;But the United states Jews have chosento abandon tradition,fulfilled the individual freedom ethical,and had to face thesubsequent uncertainly、empty as well as the meaningless of life.ChapterⅢ,in-depth analyse the narrative ethics of singer’s short stories.mainlyfrom the four levels: including the ethical orientation of the narrative language、thenarrator’ethics intervention、the ethics implication of the internal focus narrative、theethics present of the narrative structure.singer’s narrative strategy buried with histraditional ethics orientation.
Keywords/Search Tags:Singer, stort stories, story ethics, narrative ethics
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