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The Research Of Coetzee’s Autobiographic Creation

Posted on:2013-05-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y MenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330377951085Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Traditional Biographer takes attention to the value of information, In the purpose of exploring truth, but it ignores ideology and art of Autobiography, J.M.Coetzee does not agree with Traditional Biographer. what is the autobiography and How to present the truth,these problems above make J.M.Coetzee thinking. J.M.Coetzee says that everything is narrative autobiography. he takes the truth and imaginary fusion together and creates a kind of autobiography with fictional color. He takes the theory in to practice and has a try in the literary creation of Boyhood, Youth, Summertime, Diary of a Bad Year. The four works with the unique sense of time, social, historical insights and self reflection of J.M.Coetzee present a challenge to traditional autobiography from different aspects. This thesis consists of three chapters.In the First chapter, I talk about the Third person present tense narrative of Boyhood, Youth,it challenges the First-person retrospective Perspective of Traditional autobiography, J.M.Coetzee tells his story in a Marginalized boy’s perspective with the focus of implicit conversion, so it presents More objective and avoids the arbitrary static effect caused by the first-person narrative. the application of the present tense merges narrative time and experience time,it reflects the unique concept of time of J.M.Coetzee, at the same time the article occasionally memories phenomenon become simpromptu memories, it eliminates the uncertainty. bringing by traditional Autobiography of the past tense in the memory of the forgotten.In the second chapter, I talk about the personal history by the others lives In Summertime. Traditional autobiography shows myself through personal life, however J.M.Coetzee think that my life mixed with the others’lives. he put himself shattered into the story of Julia, Margot, Adrian, Martin, and Sophielt and shows himself through the debris in the wider circle and a larger historical context. This is also the Greater development than the traditional autobiographyIn the third chapter, I talk about the Dialogue of creation in Diary of a Bad Year, Coetzee does not agree with the traditional autobiography in the aspect of exploring truth by self narration. he makes the different voice allowed,He believes that dialogue shows more truth of fact, Diary of a Bad Year with Deep understanding of social life, and the profound reflection takes dialogue strategy,it is different from traditional autobiography presenting the truth through monologue way in the closed state, It forms the opening state and makes a kind of innovation...
Keywords/Search Tags:J.M.Coetzee, New Autobiography, Narrative
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