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The Study Of Secularized Narration Of Old Tales Retold

Posted on:2019-03-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330548468407Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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The concept of "secular" was originally derived from the field of religious sociology.Compared with the concept of "sacred",it represented the life form out of the realm of religious control.Secularization is a opposite process of "deification".In e social domain,it is the discovery of the concrete and material social form and the reflection and disenchantment of the thoughts of the gods and their representatives,promoting rationality and personal value.The result of secularization is that daily life experience is valued as a new kind of survival experience.In the field of literature,the secularized narration is corresponding to the divine narration.From the perspective of narratology,this article takes the narrative form of Old Tales Retold as the research object.Secular narrative is defined as a mythical hero or cultural sages daily in the context of refactoring and imagination.The secularized narration of Old Tales Retold is researched from two dimensions:It is manifested as the secular aesthetic effect of the interaction between the new text and the original text,and also as the secularization of the internal representation of the new text.Through the analysis of the characteristics of the secularization of text narration,the article aims to find the relationship between the secularized imagination and the author’s realistic personal experience.Therefore,the purpose of this paper is to explore the important role of secularized narration of Old Tales Retold in the modernity of the writing.First of all.the first chapter of the article mainly analyzes the aesthetic effect of secularization from the perspective of the composition of the text.Through the analysis of internal multiple text type,the eight texts of Old Tales Retold are divided into four kinds:mythological text,historical documents,folk stories and fictional text of the author,the article aims to explore the implementation of secularized narration from the perspective of textual interaction.Secondly,the second chapter of this paper analyzes the main manifestations of the secularized narration from the perspective of artistic expression,and explores how the secular narrative becomes possible in Old Tales Retold.In terms of expression,secularized narration can be summarized as four parts:the setting of daily life scenes,the imagination of "personality weakness",the integration of the crowd’s perspective At the end of the novel and the flattering rhetoric in new texts.Thirdly,after the analysis of the narrative type and expression technique of the text,the third chapter of this paper begins to analyze the main ideas of Old Tales Retold.The emotional color of flattering rhetoric in new texts is not necessarily negative,and it is not"negative side" for the theme construction of Old Tales Retold.Through the analysis of the narrative mode of Old Tales Retold,the article aims to explore the inner relationship between the narrative form of the text and the themes of the texts,and then constructs the spiritual structure of Lu Xun’s literary world.In Old Tales Retold,there is a reflection on the realistic proposition of the author’s early attention and the allegorical representation of his own thinking dilemma.The dual theme derives from the rationalism and irrationalism of Lu Xun’s thought.As a rationalist,Lu Xun believes that the real world is the orderly existence and the reconstruction of the meaning of life can be realized through enlightenment.However,on the other hand,Lu Xun also found that the disorder of the world and the difficulty of the human being to overcome the existence.Finally,the author chose secularized narration as the main narrative method which is not accidental.There is profound connection between traditional literature resources and secularized narration,which reflects Lu Xun’s "creative transformation" for Chinese traditional literary resources.
Keywords/Search Tags:Old Tales Retold, secularized narration, text interaction, expression method, dual theme, traditional narrative resources
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