Research Of Animal Narrative Novels In The New Period

The animal narration in the new period is a creation genre of novels in which animals participate in novel construction as the subject of life with self-independence,and undertake the action metafunction.Personalization of animals is the biggest feature of animal narration in the new period.In animal narration,there exist its own story development line which participate in expressing the text’s understanding of nature and human society as a single or a group image with the same function.Animal narration in the new period aims not at representing pure animal life or the animal world.As an increasingly prosperious novel creation genre in the new period,animal narrative novels have manifested their own unique features in terms of thematic expression and narrative techniques.Based on intensive text reading,we can use narrative theory to analyze the features of narrative function,plot structure,space narrative,narrative perspective and narrative person.The animal narrative novels in the new period can be divided into four types:the reflection category,the native writing category,the urban situation category,and the ecological category.The animal’s function in the novel with great significance to both the plot direction and the purpose expression,and can be roughly divided into two types:the action metafunction and the metaphorical function.According to the position in plot development,the narrative funtion of animal narrative novels in the new period can be divided into four development processes:the emergence of contradiction,the development of the contradiction in the dilemma,the process and method of conflict resolution,and the outcome of death or reconciliation.According to the relationship between the action elements that play a key role in animal narrative novels and their structural representations,the structural type of animal narrative novels in the new period can be divided into two types:"reflection" and "survival".The story space of animal narrative novels in the new period can be roughly divided into three types:westward,rural and urban.Due to the different characteristics of their natural landscapes,folk customs and religious cultures,the story space in animal narrative fictions naturally present different features of cultural deposits.In addition,the story space has important structural significance in the narrative works.The setting of the story space presented from the perspective of animals and the orientation space that bear the theme expression is an important way for character characterization and thematic disclosure in animal narration.It embodies the narrative function of structural space.In animal narrative novels in the new period,the narrative perspective and the narrative person are also unique,such as the animal discourse and animal perspective and the first-person omniscient narration in narrative aspect.Colorful animal image and animal world are presented from the animal perspective and animal discourse has a strong sense of emotional expression.Through rationalizing the first-person omniscient narration on the basis of the narrator marginalization and animal personification,the first-person omniscient narration of animal narrative novels in the new period can be divided into two types,conventional narration and variable narration.Making the animal become an observer of the story or a narrator of the story is an expression of animal personification,which create’s a strange and fantastic aesthetic experience in terms of artistic effect.