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Homogeneous Cultural Aspirations Narrative Perspective

Posted on:2014-05-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W H HanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2265330425453154Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Kings or the king book, is paralleling with Indian epic and Greek epic,world literary masterpieces. Kings produced at10to11century in medieval Iran, which involves the ancient king of Iran four dynasties50’rise and fall with a generation of heroes courageously, excellentand unitv, enjoy ancient Iran’s encyclopedia Manas is the xinjiang kirgiz of china,ethnic great hero epic, it formed from13to16century, manas praise the hero and his descendants led the heroic deeds of kirgiz people against foreign invaders. look from the geographical location and historical origin, The two epic have the possibility of communication and influence.Aimed at narrative horizon for attention, this article start from two epic narrative structure and narrative mode, in the guidance of comparative research methods, elplain the two homogeneous cultural appeal, reveal the influence relationship between them and to explore its causes. This article is divided into five parts:The first part is the introduction, mainly introduced the reason of selected this topic, historical origin and the research methods. when we look back on the past, found that people always stand in the perspective of a single culture or literature on research of epic, there are few bold comparison, analogy try. One of the few epic compared with Greece’s and Chinese epic to make a simple comparison, or only do compare between Chinese three great epics, and compared Persian epic with Chinese national minority epic is a blank, but affect relations between the two is a real role in the development of literature; in the domestic, the study of both teams from different angles and demonstrate their own viewpoints and theories. Internationally, the Kings translated into English, French, German, Russian, chinese more than40countries;this paper mainly use the method of literature comparative, supplemented by close reading of the method and the method of social history.The second part stand on the basic of the two epic, from geographical position and history origin explained the communication between them.Geographically, the yuan dynasty landscape have expanded to Chinese surrounding countries and regions, forcefully promoted the wide range of economic and cultural exchange between Chinese and foreign countries.from Spreadind of xinjiang manas’s distribution, its all in the west near the border with foreign territory, such as tacheng,yining, Tex, zhao su, aksu, Lord arturo, umm, gram tao, yarkand, tashikuergan. It can illustrate the influence more or less happened between them. From the history, the Kings came from10to11th century AD, and manas produced in later from13th to16th. Look from the traditional literature in China, Chinese people lack of narrative poem in history,and in persian epic style only Kings, prose and poetry writings.The third part is the focus of this paper, from the narrative structure, this paper discusses the structures of the two epic in homogeneous cultural appeal and causes. Manas epic and Kings have a common characteristic in the structure, firstly,the structure based on behavior as the center; Secondly, epic between each part exists independent and unified structure relations; Three is on internal structure, two at the same time with strong tragedy consciousness. for its reason, the external structure description can be traced back to central Asia at the time of the turkic dictionary. Epic of the tragic hero is closely related to national destiny,the internal structure of the tragedy of the common consciousness author thought can be summed up in two ethnic groups in history.The fourth part is also a key part of the article, explore the narrative mode of two homogeneous culture. Two common narrative models including strange hero was born, the family betrayal mode. In primitive belief,the combination of strange people and animals form image has a strong folk culture foundation. Strange son story first reflected the strong desire for life. Strange son marriage infertility couples tend to long qi son story as a start, this set the tone for the development of the story. Second, strange son story embodies the people of good moral character’s voice, and in his appearance, better than the ordinary person’s thinking character, is the result of the people pursuit of ideal personality; With the continuous improvement of productivity and private ownership of the emergence and development, based on geographical ties linking the tribes, tribal alliances to grow gradually. With blood as the link of family relationship slowly crumble. The conflict between family members, friends and relatives, are all driven by. Relatives of betrayal motif, punishing relatives betrayal motif, disintegration of clan, tribe and tribal alliance of reflection of social reality in epic.The fifth part is the conclusion part of this paper, two epic narrative structure follows the common oral formulaic theory, basic morphogenetic epic, as long as no fixed in the form of words, not become documented epic, is an active state of the epic, the folk wisdom. As long as there is, there will be development. Kings came after the Chinese dynasties, the Persian court and a large house there are Kings of recitation, the urban and rural holiday gatherings or teahouses are reading can be seen around this epic, recitation of Kings became a specialized profession and art. Manas epic handed down for hundreds of years, after the formation of a traditional Chinese folk artists processing, fulfillment. Two epics are associated with their respective national experience, firdausi when writing Kings, Arab Persian period, after the Arab invasion of the Persian, Persia, up and down across the country have strong dissatisfaction to the foreign aggressors. Manas epic in strong tragedy consciousness also comes from the minorities in the process of development has suffered damage, even modern kyrgyz, also used against poetry to reveal a variety of disaster caused by the exploiting classes.
Keywords/Search Tags:Kings, Manas, narrative structure, narrativepattern, homogeneous culture demands
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