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On The Appearance And Truth Of Mo Yan’s Novols In Perspective Of Folklore

Posted on:2015-02-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X H MinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330428979680Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Mo Yan is a quite bolshy and innovative writer, he breaks the bound of traditional literary sdandard and the mainstream ideology. His writing of history, figure shapes and narrative style are all quite unique. Mo Yan breaks history narrative model of traditional revolutionary historical novels and official history, he pushes the unimportant persons who are driven to the edge of the mainstream shaped history onto the historical arena performance. He uses his talent of sensory description and imagination, and draws out his own life experience to narrate the bottom people’s suffering and their different reaction to suffering. By the suffering writing of the past and the present, Mo Yan uncovered the suffering nature of people’s existence and promote suffering to the height of all human beings. Besides, Mo Yan breaks the taboo of traditional literature which excludes violence, sex, ugly and morbid presumptuously described by him. Mo Yan also shaped a group of wild peasants full of original vital force whose braveness, integrity contrast the cowardice, disability and weak spirit of descendent. It conveys the deep worry of the species degradation, which endows Mo Yan’s novels the meaning of both history and present.Mo Yan’s innovation on form is also appreciated. He applies the traditional, modern, domestic and foreign literary writing methods and forms his own writing characteristic. On narration person, Mo Yan transforms his favorite first-person narration to compound ones, such as "my grangpa" and "my grandma", which makes narration more flexible without missing of truth. On narration time, Mo Yan assimilates the narration ways of stream-of-consciousness and magic realism, and breaks monotonous, orderly narration time in traditional literature. On narration language, Mo Yan bases on the folk and uses abundant folk language to manifest folk discourse and show the erosion from mainstream discourse to folk discourse. Of course, only serve to content can form get its value. The use of first-person narration, disordered narrative time as well as folk language, and so on, greatly contribute to the truth and rich of the content.
Keywords/Search Tags:Mo Yan, Folklore, Rebel, Narrative, Truth
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