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The Narrative Art Of The Blind Assassin

Posted on:2014-01-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J G ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330398954182Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Margaret Atwood is a prolific writer, her work includes poetry, fictionand literary criticism, she is known as the "Canadian literature Queen".The reputation of her novel, won the attention of readers worldwide.These works not only concerned about women’s survival of the state,Canadian national identity, ecological doctrine content level, is still anovel narrative form up and down enough effort, to establish a monumentfor contemporary narrative. This article is based on narrative theory andthe theory of intertextuality, of Atwood novel "The Blind Assassin"narrative art and women from blind obedience to the process ofawakening. The paper is divided into three parts of the introduction, bodyand conclusion."Introduction" provides a simple introduction to the Atwood’sachievements in literature, to combing the domestic research status oftheir novels, and as a basis proposed this problem to be solved, and I wantto approach to the study. Body part is a total of three chapters. The first chapter Atwood’s novel"The Blind Assassin" narrative structure and morphology that AtwoodMatryoshka structure and collage decorated retractable structure to beinnovative and away from the traditional novel.Chapter II Atwood novel "The Blind Assassin" did not specificallyaddressed in the main body of the narrative perspective and unreliablenarrator. Choice of perspective, Atwood uses both the first-personperspective, in turn female perspective and of omniscience perspective,the third-person character perspective, and a large number of originaldocuments and set the application unreliable narrator strategy, making thenarrative Text elucidation of the multiple connotations, caused byacoustic resonance "situation.The third chapter analyzes the novel intertextuality, corresponding tothe two "Blind Assassin" text image and reality and the control of thestory, Atwood formed by a multi-level structure of intertextuality, thesignificance of the novel contains more thought-provoking. The fourth chapter analyzes the women embodied in the novel blindobedience to the process of awakening, women have begun to fight fortheir own freedom and the right to speak.The conclusion is a summary of the narrative art of Atwood novel,Atwood has been able to become a best-selling novelist, has become theclassic writers of literary theory research in the university classroom, infact, its not only inherited the theory of traditional Chinese Literature,unique combination of creative new ideas of modernism andpostmodernism. She is not a complete departure from the traditionalnovel, and the courage to practice and open up a new narrative technique,rich in narrative theory, contribute to the development of the narrativeliterature of their own strength.
Keywords/Search Tags:Margaret Atwood, narrative structure, narrative subject, intertextuality
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