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The Studies Of The Narrations Of Death In The Medium-lenth Novels Which Got The Lu Xun Literary Prize

Posted on:2017-05-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L L HuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330488456103Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Death is a forever topic of the literature. We can feel clearly the life’s value and experience through revealing people’s attitude to death. Death is simplex, but it let you see how easy one life can disappear. Death is also complex, and there are many aspects of the society behind every death, such as politic, culture, morality, humanity, thought, etc.. Lu Xun Literary Prize is one of the prizes of highest honor and a directional flag for the direction of the literature, as its literary style and directional theme have close relation with the ages. There are a lot of narrations of death in Lu Xun Literary Prize, which needs a very real concern. These works are filled with the atmosphere of death, but they are where the writers place their deep anxiety and hope for the society and the age.The paper tries to start from this angle to explore the topic type, deductive strategy, tragic meaning and cultural perspective of the narration of death through text analysis for the medium-lenth novels which got the Lu Xun Literary Prize.The main body concludes four parts:The first charpter classifies the narrations of death in the medium-lenth novels which got the Lu Xun Literary Prize. Through textual reading for 34 novellas and based on the special feature of every death or the social phenomenon involved, the paper summarizes four death types that are death due to suffering, destiny, evil and misplacement. The death due to misplacement concludes misplacements between human and age, country and city, the old and the young, and the abled and the disabled.The second charpter interprets the deductive strategy of the medium-lenth novels which got the Lu Xun Literary Prize, and there are three ways:The first one is warmth defusing death. The paper reveal the writers’continuity and hope behind the narration of death. They try their best to bring readers hope through detail description or glance in dreams. The second one is explaining death by absurd. The writers use exaggeration and prophesy at the maximum limit, and show human alienation caused by some unexpected things. The third one is reviewing death with "Degree Zero interfering". Death is terrible and can bring unbearable shock and tragedy, but the writers only narrate it with the most indifferent words, without any feelings. They try to let readers feel the brutality and experience the pain, so that the narration can achieve the effect that "silence is better than verbal language".The third charpter discusses the tragic meaning of the narration of death in the medium-lenth novels which got the Lu Xun Literary Prize. Through the review of the basic types and deductive strategy in narration of death, we can get the aesthetic value. The paper mainly discuss it from three parts:Desolate Beauty-- depressive survival predicament, Gloomy beauty-accepting suffering powerlessly, Lofty Beauty-- Struggling with destiny doggedly.The fourth charpter studies the cultural perspective to the narration of death in the medium-lenth novels which got the Lu Xun Literary Prize. The writers use a lot of narrations of death not only to bring readers reading experience, but also to clearly express their purposes of writing. This charpter study it from three parts. The first is survival experience and life perception. The writers show their deep understanding of the social situation or people’s mental attitude through describing the whole with the typical. The second is humanity review and social criticism. The works reveal the problems in the process of social modernization by using artistic expressions of exaggeration, absurd and image. The third is moral concern and spiritual salvation. From the angle of social function, we can see that the writers try to call for supreme good and positive energy with the extremely ugly. Every narration of death has the writer’s best hope in the back, which forms the special humanism concern. They generously give sympathy and pity to the people who are in surffering.
Keywords/Search Tags:"Lu Xun Literary Prize", Medium-lenth Novel, Death Narration
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