The Rhetorical Art Of Shi Tiesheng’s The Essays Composed During Illness

The Essays Composed during Illness is written by a famous contemporary writer of Shi Tiesheng,which is a masterpiece of prose after The Earth Temple and I. This book is divided into six parts, a total of243knots, in which was mainly described his thoughts during his illness about the life significantpropositions, for example, birth and death, disability and love, literature and writing, suffering and faith, thesoul and body, material and spirit, and it has a deep ideological content and artistic quality. As a successfulphilosophical essay, The Essays Composed during Illness is worth our in-depth study. However, althoughcurrent academic research on Shi Tiesheng’s prose works has a large number, but the study of The EssaysComposed during Illness is very limited. Only some of the papers were also from the perspective ofliterature and aesthetics, including the theory or philosophy for researching, but ignoring the systematic andcomprehensive analysis from the perspective of rhetoric research.Based on the generalized rhetoric and western new rhetoric theory as guidance, this paper soughtto analyze the thought and artistic value of Shi Tiesheng’s The Essays Composed during Illnesssystematically and deeply, in order to achieve supplement and perfection for the relevant researches both intheory and in practice, deepen the people’s understanding of this book, making people appreciate andevaluate of this essay more comprehensively.This paper consists of three parts. The first part is the introduction, mainly introduced thedomestic research present situation about the Shi Tiesheng’s prose, and this paper’s theoretical basis, mainresearch methods and innovation point. The second part is the body, in the body of the first chapter, thispaper sought to analyze the discourse construction of The Essays Composed during Illness mainly from the words level, specific analysis of the language art of this book. In the third chapter, mainly from thediscourse level, systematic analysis of the text construction of this book, divided into dialogue mode andmetaphor narrative type of mode. In the fourth chapter, deeply analysis of the spiritual construction of thisbook. In this paper, the third part is the epilogue, in which summarizing the rhetoric art and fullyrecognizing its artistic value of The Essays Composed during Illness. This paper hope through the aboveanalysis of The Essays Composed during Illness from the perspective of rhetoric, finally come to theconclusion that The Essays Composed during Illness in rhetorical art is a successful essays, and has ahighly art appreciation value.