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The Research On Kenzaburo Oe’s Novels From The Perspective Of Narrative Ethics

Posted on:2014-03-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S H LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330422474462Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Narrative ethics raised more and more concern as time goes on. Literature creationis gradually turning from grand narrative into individual narrative, and emphasized theindividual ethical selection from the reality problem. Kenzaburo Oe, as the Nobel PrizeWinner, described a world combined with reality and fiction, and showed his ethicaltendency to the reader, with his abundant imagination and consummate Narrative skills.Scholars both at home and abroad have conducted intensive research on his works, butthere is no system in his Narrative ethical study. In order to fill in this gap and dig intohis ethics attitude hiding in the texts, this article try to use parallel study to unscramblehis novels,form three dimensionality—rhetoric narrative ethics、sex narrative ethicsand religious narrative ethics:Rhetorical narrative ethics is put forward by Florentine, he thinks that narrative is akind of behavior, and we can express our own ethical views through it. Kenzaburo oeutilized the rhetorical narrative to increase the personal experience to the universalsignificance of human, sketched the Japanese peoples’living conditions after the war.From the Angle of sex narrative ethics, kenzaburo oe chose the unique perspectiveof "sex" to describe the society: he confirmed the dual character of the human identity,And through the carnival of sex and carnival of death expressed the panic of the wholesociety, pointed out in the right direction to people by the contract narrative model.When study his work from the Angle of religious narrative ethics, I found thatthere is a clear intersexuality between the kenzaburo oe’s works and the bible literature,and his study also influenced by the Doctrine of Buddhism, such as causality theory andthe nirvana said, which finally promote him formed an unique religious redemption.Kenzaburo oe attaches great importance to narrative ethics. In order to lead theright thought of readers, he drew the outline of society, meanwhile expressed his socialideal by using narrative methods, and then formed his own narrative type. This articleresearch the novels of kenzaburo oe from the perspective of narrative ethics,lookingforward to better understand the writer and his works。...
Keywords/Search Tags:Kenzaburo oe, narrative ethics, rhetoric, sex, religious
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