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On Feminist Narrative In China Spread And Development

Posted on:2014-07-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2265330425455756Subject:Literature and art
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Feminist Narratology is born in the United States the1980s, which is an rising interdiscipline of feminine literature criticism and structuralist narratology these two great theory genres, is one of the most important and greatest impact factions of postclassical narratologies. Once rose, it vividly occupied the position of Western literary theory academic frontier. Feminist Narratology takes in and blend with the essence of feminine literature criticism and structuralist narratology theories. It has the guidance of objective and complete theoretical system with drawing on the scientific and rigorous narrative structure pattern analytical concept of structuralist narratology, and get rid of highly subjective and densely political malady of feminine literature criticism. It has the social ideology explanation standpoint with drawing on gender political analysis point of view of feminist literary criticism and avoid onefold and rigid formalism tendency of structuralist narratology. Feminist Narratology set the advantages of the two theoretical systems, avoiding each other’s weaknesses, and constantly improve feminine text narrative analysis under socio-historical context and make efforts to construct a theory of authority of female discourse.Feminist narratology as a complete set of outstanding theoretical system, also have the strong support from the theory and practice."Narrative voice" the feminist narratology core concept is the bridge of communication between narrator, story works and the readers, are the methods and strategies writers use to write, are the ways and means narrator intervene the story, and embodies different writing styles and narrative modes. Feminist Narratology consider it as its entry point to criticize, integrate the voice of the narrative form with social identity of the voice, combine with the specific socio-historical context, analyze feminine text narrative and then thoroughly and roundly interpret female narrative text. In addition, narrator and narrative perspective are two important concepts of structuralist narratology also show in feminist narratology at the same time, and play pivotal role in feminist narratology research. Exploration about narrator, narrative voice combined with gender factors, help enrich feminist narrative theory, and also contribute to a more comprehensive and in-depth analysis of reading female fiction text. The Western feminist narrative educated by nearly three decades of development history, the growing influence of far-reaching and widely spread in China, culminating in the beginning of the21st century. Even Feminist narratology Chinese-style development is from the Western feminist narratology, but not the same, it has its own development steps and path due to late incoming time, the spread of a limited range, limited information, and differences of tradition of literary theory, cultural practices to be investigated, historical context, social consciousness, ways of thinking in the domestic academic circles, which eventually formed the Feminist Narratology with Chinese characteristics. Yet looking at the domestic academia research on feminist narrative, scholars discussed the connotation of the theory at the theoretical level, involved the use of this method in critical practice, but overall, the assessment study of the the feminist narrative theory lacked the awareness of connecting social historical and cultural context with Chinese characteristics, and even occasionally involved, it’s just the wording in the vicinity, there are very few special articles to explore the issue. In view of this, the author believes that it is necessary to write a special article to explore the spread and development of feminist narratology in China under the premise that drawing on previous achievements.This article contacts feminine literature criticism and structuralist narratology these two major theoretical source, focus on the development of feminist narratology in China, from two aspects theoretical discussions and text parsing. Text is divided into three chapters:Chapter one, overview of Western feminist narratology. Contrasted respectively with Western feminist literary criticism and structuralist narratology, the Western feminist narratology concept is Defined. View from the course of the theory development, its generation is prompted by Western feminist literary criticism and structuralist narratology development pros and cons and then experienced the initial formation, development and growth stages of development.Chapter two, Feminist Narratology is in China. Feminine literature criticism and structuralist narratology provide theoretical preparation for the spread of Feminist Narratology. Their drawbacks become inevitability of Feminist Narratology to take root in China. Feminist Narratology sinicizing process obtained some achievements, while also facing many difficulties, there is still a long way to sinicize Feminist Narratology in the right direction. Chapter three, Feminist Narratology and native novel text interpretation. The "voice" is the core concept of the Feminist Narratology, predecessors has been involved in the concept of "voice" for a long time, but the connotation of feminist narratology "narrative voice" is much profounder than this. LANCER divided narrative voice into three types:authorial voice, personal voice and communal voice, the local Chinese novel text respectively reflects these three models. In addition, important concepts like narrative voice, narrative perspective which originally belonged to. structuralist narratology, has a unique meaning in feminist narratology by the impact of gender and also has a unique performance when interpret fiction narrative text using feminist narratology.
Keywords/Search Tags:Feminist Narratology, Feminine Literature Criticism, Structuralist Narratology, Narrative Voice, Narrator, Narrative Perspective, Text Interpretation
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