The Study Of Post Journey To The West

Post Journey to the West which has forty chapters,is one of the three sequels of Journey to the West,renews in the ending of the buddhist scriptures of the Journey to the West.The novel tells the story of Buddha seek out Tang Banjie,Sun Wukong,Zhu Yijie and Sha Zhihe go to the West together to find the explaining of ture scriptures after the Tang monk has obtained the true scriptures.The academic community has a few related research on the “Post Journey to the West”,and the content is relatively simple.On the one hand,this paper explores the author's writing background from the social background;On the other hand with intensive reading of the text,an in-depth discussion on the ideological content and artistic features of “Post Journey to the West”.And eventually compare with " Journey to the West ",in order to fully grasp the unique and abundant thoughts and artistic value.The whole paper contains five chapters.Chapters One is introduction,mainly on the literature searching of the study about Post Journey to the West.And based on it to present the research ideas and methods of this paper.Chapters Two is the theory of book-producing.It is mainly to explore the author of Post Journey to the West and the social and cultural background of the book.The author mainly derives from the content of the novel,the characteristic of the language and the relevant information.The social and cultural background mainly introduces the social culture in the late Ming and early Qing dynasty to analyze the influence in this work.Chapter Three is the theory of thoughts.Divide the thoughts structure of Post Journey to the West into three levels.The surface structure is the author's universal salvation thought;The grass-roots structure is the author's criticism of the social world in the late Ming and early Qing dynasty,mainly stire of the satire and the Buddha.The deep structure is the real intention of the author's writing which to achieve the goal of liberation through self-emancipation.Chapter Four is the theory of arts.The first is to analyze the double aesthetic characteristics of the book as a magic novel and allegory.Secondly,it sets out to the symbolization of the novel image and the philosophy of the novel language,to analyze the fiction which is biased the allegorical teaching with the result that the aesthetic deficiency caused by the excessive philosophical implication.Chapter Five is the theory of sequel.First of all,the minds theme of Post Journey to the Westadoping from Journey to the West and the adoring south zen theme reversing from it.The second is the continuation of the relevant content of the book in the plot,as well as the implied inversion in the similar plot.Finally,the structure of the original linear structure of the parody and the minor renovation of the event.