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Comparative Study Of Narrative In The Pilgrim’s Progress And The Journey To The West

Posted on:2016-12-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z D ShenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330461494041Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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China and the United Kingdom’s classical literature The Journey to the West and The Pilgrim’s Progress were accomplished in the 16th and 17th century, in terms of the narrative text also represent a unique narrative mode of literary narrative. Chinese Ming Dynasty, "Masterpieces Style" The Journey to the West, tells Zang mentoring four all the way through hardships, arrived in Tianzhu, made Scriptures rescue "self and "other" story. British religious allegorical novel The Pilgrim’s Progress is about the "Christian" after all the difficulties, to Mount Zion, to get the story of eternal life. From the British missionary William Burns(1815 --- 1868) in 1853 in cooperation with the Chinese people will John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, translated into Chinese, published by Xiamen began, The Pilgrim’s Progress reading on in the form of religion in China spread to; The Journey to the West in the West has also been translated into many languages spread, and received international acclaim. Two works continue to be accepted by other countries and translation process, all have had a profound impact.This paper attempts to explore the The Pilgrim’s Progress and The Journey to the West from the perspective of narrative, analysis of their similarities and differences and narrative reason, establish a reference based on their own ideas and narrative development. The first chapter analyze the reasons for the similarities and differences of the two story structure works well behind, followed by analysis of the narrative without major structural heterogeneity adventure again and again in the process of similarities and differences and why, in the final analysis two works environment. The second chapter focuses on the figure of two narratives, the use of "actants" mode to one research model between the body and other elements, as well as between the body and the body transformation. The third chapter from The Pilgrim’s Progress and The Journey to the West person narrative, the narrative perspective and narrative voices in the three aspects of the two novels the narrator research and analysis. The fourth chapter is a discussion of the narrative process, mainly in the main part of the implicit narrative, behind two novels explore the hidden narrative undercurrent.Based on the close reading The Pilgrim’s Progress and The Journey to the West two works, combining both Chinese and western narrative theory, the use of parallel comparison, into which a comparative study of narrative. In-depth understanding of the West Narrative Theory, narrative culture, thus promoting the development of Chinese and Western cultures learn from each other and each, in order to contribute to the national narrative research.
Keywords/Search Tags:The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Journey to the West, narrative, a comparative study
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