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"Historical Records" Bourne Was Strange Records And Six Ghost Stories

Posted on:2014-02-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J LvFull Text:PDF
GTID:2265330425953562Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Historical Records is a biographical history book of writing biographies.But in addition to historical figures, it also recorded some god, ghost, monster and teratology, in imperial histories and biographies described some of miraculous characters and supernatural events. Si Ma-Qian is not the first historian of recording supernatural stories in historical books. God, ghost, monster and teratology into history have a deep historical and cultural origin. When Si Ma-Qian inherited the pre-Qin history tradition of noting bizarre and strange stories, he integrate into his own thoughts and feelings, in the Historical Records teratology show some unique features. This article intends to focus on the records of god, ghost, monster and teratology in Historical Records, as a small but unusual place, and further explore the value and significance of the strange and ghost matters in Historical Records for the supernatural novels in WeiJin and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, seeking its literature influence about ideological content and narrative art on later novels.This paper consists of introduction, three chapters and conclusion.Introduction first introduces the definition of the gods, ghosts, monster and teratology in this paper and the theoretical basis for research object. Secondly, briefly introduced spread and acceptance of Historical Records and its supernatural tales in Six Dynasties, further introduced the research status about this paper. Finally list the framework and the research goal of this paper.The first chapter integrally studies the records of gods, ghosts, monster and teratology in Historical Records. First through the screening and statistics, I outcome that summarizes82supernatural matters in Historical Records, indicating that appearing strange contents in Historical Records is an inevitable writing, rather than an accidental phenomenon. Through the analysis of the82pieces of supernatural matters, I draw the following conclusions:supernatural matters in Historical Records in the table of different style, different historical stages showing uneven distribution and characteristics of ancient details and this slightly. That Si Ma-Qian cited genie into history is follow from Confucius, also has his own innovation and development. Compared with other histories, literary works of the supernatural tales, the records in Historical Records show three characters:Not only for strange story, but for the biography; cautious attitude; simply and completely, have sentiments. In the many supernatural records in Historical Records, the eight miraculous figures appear most mysterious, they have special status, extraordinary mission, vivid narrative and detailed description, are the outstanding representatives of supernatural records in Historical Records.The second chapter studies the ideological heritage between supernatural records in Historical Records and supernatural tales in Six Dynasties from the ideological motivation. Ghost stories of the Six Dynasties inherited the spirit and essence of the Historical Records supernatural tales, as well as a breakthrough and change. First, on the attitudes and understanding about god and ghost, the Six Dynasties novelists inherited Si Ma-Qian’s "Record" spirit, recognize the historian value of supernatural matters, so to be honestly writing, behind this record spirit reflects the identity and expose for the world of gods and ghosts. Second, in the behind of Supernatural behavior, it is the understanding and discovery about human beings. Si Ma-Qian pays close attention to the virtue of character, and finds the people’s history initiative. Impacting at the subconscious level to the Six Dynasties Supernatural novelists, they are also scared that the underlying theme of the person’s life and death, survival and love in the supernatural. Third, about emotional needs, Historical Records and Supernatural novels both have love-hate emotions and express good wishes.The third chapter studies the artistic value of the supernatural records in Historical Records for Six Dynasties Supernatural novel from the narrative. Firstly, at narrative perspective, Historical Records ghosts and demons appear,"(a) x+doing" narrative mode, in fact, is the use of limited narrative perspective. This affects the narrative novels, supernatural tales in the Six Dynasties adopted the third person limited narration, the limited angle of view to the inheritance and development of. Secondly, at the processing of the end of story, the disappearance of the demons is used to supernatural tales in the Six Dynasties, open a story ending about "Xiran away". Three is the narrative language, supernatural records in Historical Records and tales in the Six Dynasties showed simple and elegant language styles, they focus on dialogue, psychological description and detail description, in order to enhance the language tension of ghost stories.The conclusion is a summary of the text content and arguments, pointed out the need to pay attention to the study, pointing to the value and significance of this article research.
Keywords/Search Tags:supernatural records in Historical Records, god, ghost, monsterand teratology, supernatural novels in the Six Dynasties, ideology, narrative
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