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Research For Normal And Magic Weapons In Supernatural Evil-spirit Novels Of The Late Ming Dynasty

Posted on:2016-10-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B Q LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330461495265Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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The late of Ming Dynasty was prosperous times with emergence of a large number Supernatural Evil-spirit Novels, mythical novels of this period is not only rewarding and high artistic achievement, but also with the social background of that times is inextricably linked. In the showed magical weapon and magical power of bizarre ghost world, it seems cold and no "life" of the weapon, which mostly accompanied by the development of commodity economy in the late Ming and the emerged of social liberation thought of personality. The author based on the realistic and unconstrained realistic art of imagination and exaggeration, which constitute an important part of the content of the novels. On the one hand, these different forms of magic weapon has been given more reflect the folk religious beliefs and social life in a new culture. On the other hand, the specific description of the relevant features and functions promote the development of the plot and characters the successful creation in the form of the novel. Also it provides certain reference significance for establishment of relationship between the specific weapons in the fantasy novels and literature. Based on this, it chooses some relatively active mythical novels produced in the late Ming Dynasty about during the period of Wanli to Chongzhen. These novels appear more frequently typical magic weapon as a specific object to study, trying to analyze the cross of the novel text and the late Ming of social ideas. It used the induction, illustrate, comparison, statistics and other methods, to reveal these normal and magic weapons implied and reflect practical significance and aesthetic value.Throughout the paper, the introduction is mainly divided into two parts, One is discussed research status of novels and the "treasure” from the existing academic achievements get experience to found insufficient, it identify the research methods and the research significance. Two is to determine the research direction and the research object and define the specific scope that we want to study through the list of related texts.The text is composed of three chapters:Chapter 1: the combination of existing normal and magic weapons of the historical culture origins in the ghost stories. From the novel of the religious spirit and the material level of social life of these two aspects, it discusses normal and magic weapons in the supernatural evil spirit novels in the late of Ming based on reality, and re-processed and new created of era mark. So it analyzes its existence of the special cultural connotation.Chapter 2: From the setting of the novel plot, according to the author in different narrative process cleverly interspersed, reasonable design, the intensification of contradictions and sums up these normal and magic weapons, it used ways in one to one, one to many, many to many of the special role of fighting style. The function of normal and magic weapons in the novel is classified. Through the analysis of these artifacts’ origin, By comparing these enemies and elaborate details such as the importance of creation, it reveals the normal and magic weapons plays a soul role in the plot development.Chapter 3: Research on the relationship between the normal and magic weapons of novel and the characters. From the different objects in the same image of perception mode characters of the inheritance and innovation, the normal and magic weapons with characters explore the inner relationship to shape characters in different background, temperament, appearance, identity and ability of organic combination. Finally, through women’s status and own magic weapon in Ming Dynasty by the role, emotion, beauty, and other characteristics as observation and comparison in the supernatural evil spirit novels, it reflects some progressive ideas regression about the contemporary expected personality return and the equality of men and women. The characters of the novel even become Superman with the help of normal and magic weapons, and these artifacts are reconstructed the social characters.
Keywords/Search Tags:Nomal Weapons, Magic Weapons, Sociocultural, Plot arrangement, Characterization
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