Jack Kerouac's"On the Road"breaks the unity and rigor in structural narration,and adopts a spontaneous writing.Based on the former interpretation and literary reviews on the narrative theory,spontaneous ...Jack Kerouac's"On the Road"breaks the unity and rigor in structural narration,and adopts a spontaneous writing.Based on the former interpretation and literary reviews on the narrative theory,spontaneous narration is interpreted from structure arrangement,dis playing plots and monologues.展开更多
Town and Country Lovers is the masterpiece of the prominent South African writer Nadine Gordimer.Trying to illustrate the discrimination bore by native African women in the 20th century from the perspective of margina...Town and Country Lovers is the masterpiece of the prominent South African writer Nadine Gordimer.Trying to illustrate the discrimination bore by native African women in the 20th century from the perspective of marginal narration,it is going to ex?plore how the character suffers from the multiple oppressions in patriarchal and the whites’society.The three sets of marginal nar?rations:racial marginalization,gender marginalization and emotional marginalization will reveal the miserable encounter and sur?vival predicament of colored women in South Africa.展开更多
Edgar Allan Poe,a writer of American Romantic period,is a forerunner in the use of irrational narration,especially in his dark tales,opening up a new approach for literature.Whether from narration perspective,plot or ...Edgar Allan Poe,a writer of American Romantic period,is a forerunner in the use of irrational narration,especially in his dark tales,opening up a new approach for literature.Whether from narration perspective,plot or theme,The Black Cat,one of his masterpiece,is the typical manifestation of this narration.展开更多
Based on rhetorical research methods of the unreliability,the paper intends to explore the unreliable narrative strategies of the narrator in Grace Paley's The Loudest Voice from the perspectives of the Wayne Boot...Based on rhetorical research methods of the unreliability,the paper intends to explore the unreliable narrative strategies of the narrator in Grace Paley's The Loudest Voice from the perspectives of the Wayne Booth's criterion of the distance between the narrator and the implied author and James Phelan's extension of unreliability on the basis of classical rhetorical narratology,point⁃ing out that the unreliability serves as the narrative trap which is set up to reveal the inner theme of the work:"The loudest voice"-what the protagonist thought she certainly possessed was only her illusion instead of the truth,and Eastern European Jewish com⁃munity was de facto marginalized by the mainstream culture at that time.展开更多
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the representative writers in American Dark Romanticism.Different from his contemporaries,the majority of Poe's short stories are characterized by irrational narration.Whether from narrat...Edgar Allan Poe is one of the representative writers in American Dark Romanticism.Different from his contemporaries,the majority of Poe's short stories are characterized by irrational narration.Whether from narration technique or elements,The Black Cat is the best elucidation of such narration.Thus,this thesis is devoted to a condensed study of irrational narration in The Black Cat,holding views that Poe's contribution in promoting the development of American literature and continuing the American dream is profound and significant.展开更多
Natsume Sōseki(1867-1916) suffered from cyclic mental depressions through his life, and it was when he was in the state of the most terrible one that he started his career as a writer by writing I Am a Cat(1905-1906)...Natsume Sōseki(1867-1916) suffered from cyclic mental depressions through his life, and it was when he was in the state of the most terrible one that he started his career as a writer by writing I Am a Cat(1905-1906). There are some evidence by his wife and friends that Sōseki's condition of disease dramatically improved during its serialization on a magazine, and the writer himself admited humorously in the preface of other work that it was his depression and mania that enabled him to produce I Am a Cat and other early works. This paper aims at describing the process how his act of narrating had therapeutic effects on his state of mind focusing on the construction of complicitous relationship between an implied author and readers in the work by the unique functions of the first-‘person' narrator: A Cat. Among others, I will consider the influence of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy(1759-1767), which Sōseki introduced to Japan for the first time, by discussing the frequent use of metalepsis that the two works have in common.展开更多
This essay investigates the way Emily Bronte manipulates the artistic split between the exterior frame,the hostile naration of Nelly and Lockwood,and the core story of Catherine and Heathcliff.As noticed by the litera...This essay investigates the way Emily Bronte manipulates the artistic split between the exterior frame,the hostile naration of Nelly and Lockwood,and the core story of Catherine and Heathcliff.As noticed by the literary critic,Armold Krupat,while Nelly and Lockwood narrate the protagonists'story,they remain emotionally detached from them.Expanding and commenting upon Krupat's argument and observation,this essay will argue that Bronte intentionally makes Nelly's and Lockwood's attitudes towards the protagonists strangely repressive and unsympathetic.In doing so,Bronte spotlights and dramatizes social mores'contaminating influence on Catherine's relationship to Heathcliff.In the 19h century England,people could not be respected unless theywere wealthy and had refined and elegant manners.Though falling in love with Heathcliff deeply,Catherine abandons her authentic will and marries the wealthy Edgar Linton.In this sense,echoing the way social norms control the fates of Catherine and Heatheliff,Nelly and Lockwood also antagonistically control their fates.In contrast to the exterior narrators,the protagonists in the interior story are always passive and remain subjected to outer forces.展开更多
As a carefully designed work, Flannert O'Connor's short story"A Good Man is Hard to Find"is a brilliant example for skillfully using narrative techniques to convey her Catholic faith. Mieke Bal's...As a carefully designed work, Flannert O'Connor's short story"A Good Man is Hard to Find"is a brilliant example for skillfully using narrative techniques to convey her Catholic faith. Mieke Bal's theories of time in narratology provide a fresh perspective to explores the characterizations in Flannert O'Connor's"A Good Man is Hard to Find". Time functions greatly to the characterizations of the characters through the narrative text in terms of the story and the fabula. It helps to present the characters' personalities by playing with the sequential ordering, rhythm and frequency. By using these narrative techniques, grandmother's selfishness, her moral inanition and her considerations that she is morally superior to others is fully expressed to the reader as well as Misfit's struggling and renascence to his disbeliefs of God and so on.展开更多
As one of Langston Hughes' best stories,the short story Early Autumn gives a vivid account of the unexpected meeting between two lovers years after they part and reveals the theme of the character's emotional ...As one of Langston Hughes' best stories,the short story Early Autumn gives a vivid account of the unexpected meeting between two lovers years after they part and reveals the theme of the character's emotional undercurrents beneath the calm surface.This paper intends to explore Hughes' unique writing skills in this short story from the respects of brief narration,dialogue technique and setting description.展开更多
The Linguist Labov develops a model to analyze the narrative,that is,the famous Labov Model.Under this model,Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge is reexamined from abstract,orientation,complicating event(s),r...The Linguist Labov develops a model to analyze the narrative,that is,the famous Labov Model.Under this model,Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge is reexamined from abstract,orientation,complicating event(s),resolution,and coda.By this method,Hardy's intention to reveal the tragic life of man will be deeply explored.展开更多
This paper maintains that as a biographic novel,The Moon and Six Pence has a unique feature on its narrative techniques.From the perspective of narrative point of view,the paper applies textual analysis to make a deta...This paper maintains that as a biographic novel,The Moon and Six Pence has a unique feature on its narrative techniques.From the perspective of narrative point of view,the paper applies textual analysis to make a detailed study on the narrative structure of the novel and how this narrative structure contributes to the plot and the characterization.展开更多
Richard Wright was an African American novelist and critic,whose works were known for the themes of African Ameri-can and racist.And Black Boy(1945)is his autobiographical novel,which consists of two parts:Southern Ni...Richard Wright was an African American novelist and critic,whose works were known for the themes of African Ameri-can and racist.And Black Boy(1945)is his autobiographical novel,which consists of two parts:Southern Night and The Horror andthe Glory.It mainly tells about how the protagonist had transformed from an innocent child to a mature youth.This thesis analyzesBlack Boy from the perspective of spatial narrative.Firstly,it analyzes three kinds of narrative spaces:physical space,social spaceand psychological space.Physical space is the real and concrete environment in which the protagonist lives.The five physical spac-es have their own characteristics,which serve as the background of the whole story and foreshadow the growth of the protagonist.So-cial space refers to the current conditions of the society,including the social reality in the space and the values that people have.The social space in the book is full of class,racial discrimination and cultural differences,which is the epitome of the society.Psy-chological space is the subconscious activity of the protagonist’s inner world,including his inner monologue and psychological ac-tivities.The protagonist is eager to establish a world of freedom and equality.展开更多
Narrative inquiry is applied to discuss the knowledge generation in teacher and learner learning community,which consists of one English teacher and 27 freshmen in a university in China.It is based on the social const...Narrative inquiry is applied to discuss the knowledge generation in teacher and learner learning community,which consists of one English teacher and 27 freshmen in a university in China.It is based on the social constructivism and cooperative learning theories.With the guidance of constructivists' knowledge conception,it aims to illuminate how knowledge is generated in a learning community.Class observation,interview,and journals were applied to collect data in the research.Analysis of the data enables the researcher to arrive at the argument that learners' prior personal and students themselves as knowledge resource are vital for knowledge generation.Furthermore,learning community provide a safe context for knowledge generation.展开更多
Ⅰ.文学常识1. dramatic monologue - A poetic or narrative form presented as the speech of one person, in which a dramatic situation is established and a dramatic listener is implied. Its particular tension is between t...Ⅰ.文学常识1. dramatic monologue - A poetic or narrative form presented as the speech of one person, in which a dramatic situation is established and a dramatic listener is implied. Its particular tension is between the reader’s initial sympathy for the speaker and the reader’s moral judgement. We understand the speaker’s point of view not only by what he or she says, but also by judging the speaker’s limitations and distortions.展开更多
Ⅰ.文学常识1. psychological realism-It is the realistic writing that probes deeply into the complexities of characters’ thoughts and motivations.2. theme-It is the central, unifying point or idea that is made concret...Ⅰ.文学常识1. psychological realism-It is the realistic writing that probes deeply into the complexities of characters’ thoughts and motivations.2. theme-It is the central, unifying point or idea that is made concrete, developed, and explored in the ACTION and the IMATERY of a work of diction.3.climax-It is the turning point or point of highest interest in a narrative, the point at which the展开更多
Based on the narrative theory of Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan,the present paper will analyze the close connection between the choice and order of the focalizers and the themes of the novel to show that they are chosen and ar...Based on the narrative theory of Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan,the present paper will analyze the close connection between the choice and order of the focalizers and the themes of the novel to show that they are chosen and arranged deliberately and accorded to its themes.展开更多
Ⅰ、文学常识1.conflict—It is the tension in a situation between characters,or the actual opposition ofcharacters(usually in drama and fiction but also in narrative poetry).There are mainly three kinfs ofconflict,name...Ⅰ、文学常识1.conflict—It is the tension in a situation between characters,or the actual opposition ofcharacters(usually in drama and fiction but also in narrative poetry).There are mainly three kinfs ofconflict,namely,man against man,man against himself,and man against nature.展开更多
文摘Jack Kerouac's"On the Road"breaks the unity and rigor in structural narration,and adopts a spontaneous writing.Based on the former interpretation and literary reviews on the narrative theory,spontaneous narration is interpreted from structure arrangement,dis playing plots and monologues.
文摘Town and Country Lovers is the masterpiece of the prominent South African writer Nadine Gordimer.Trying to illustrate the discrimination bore by native African women in the 20th century from the perspective of marginal narration,it is going to ex?plore how the character suffers from the multiple oppressions in patriarchal and the whites’society.The three sets of marginal nar?rations:racial marginalization,gender marginalization and emotional marginalization will reveal the miserable encounter and sur?vival predicament of colored women in South Africa.
文摘Edgar Allan Poe,a writer of American Romantic period,is a forerunner in the use of irrational narration,especially in his dark tales,opening up a new approach for literature.Whether from narration perspective,plot or theme,The Black Cat,one of his masterpiece,is the typical manifestation of this narration.
文摘Based on rhetorical research methods of the unreliability,the paper intends to explore the unreliable narrative strategies of the narrator in Grace Paley's The Loudest Voice from the perspectives of the Wayne Booth's criterion of the distance between the narrator and the implied author and James Phelan's extension of unreliability on the basis of classical rhetorical narratology,point⁃ing out that the unreliability serves as the narrative trap which is set up to reveal the inner theme of the work:"The loudest voice"-what the protagonist thought she certainly possessed was only her illusion instead of the truth,and Eastern European Jewish com⁃munity was de facto marginalized by the mainstream culture at that time.
文摘Edgar Allan Poe is one of the representative writers in American Dark Romanticism.Different from his contemporaries,the majority of Poe's short stories are characterized by irrational narration.Whether from narration technique or elements,The Black Cat is the best elucidation of such narration.Thus,this thesis is devoted to a condensed study of irrational narration in The Black Cat,holding views that Poe's contribution in promoting the development of American literature and continuing the American dream is profound and significant.
文摘Natsume Sōseki(1867-1916) suffered from cyclic mental depressions through his life, and it was when he was in the state of the most terrible one that he started his career as a writer by writing I Am a Cat(1905-1906). There are some evidence by his wife and friends that Sōseki's condition of disease dramatically improved during its serialization on a magazine, and the writer himself admited humorously in the preface of other work that it was his depression and mania that enabled him to produce I Am a Cat and other early works. This paper aims at describing the process how his act of narrating had therapeutic effects on his state of mind focusing on the construction of complicitous relationship between an implied author and readers in the work by the unique functions of the first-‘person' narrator: A Cat. Among others, I will consider the influence of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy(1759-1767), which Sōseki introduced to Japan for the first time, by discussing the frequent use of metalepsis that the two works have in common.
文摘This essay investigates the way Emily Bronte manipulates the artistic split between the exterior frame,the hostile naration of Nelly and Lockwood,and the core story of Catherine and Heathcliff.As noticed by the literary critic,Armold Krupat,while Nelly and Lockwood narrate the protagonists'story,they remain emotionally detached from them.Expanding and commenting upon Krupat's argument and observation,this essay will argue that Bronte intentionally makes Nelly's and Lockwood's attitudes towards the protagonists strangely repressive and unsympathetic.In doing so,Bronte spotlights and dramatizes social mores'contaminating influence on Catherine's relationship to Heathcliff.In the 19h century England,people could not be respected unless theywere wealthy and had refined and elegant manners.Though falling in love with Heathcliff deeply,Catherine abandons her authentic will and marries the wealthy Edgar Linton.In this sense,echoing the way social norms control the fates of Catherine and Heatheliff,Nelly and Lockwood also antagonistically control their fates.In contrast to the exterior narrators,the protagonists in the interior story are always passive and remain subjected to outer forces.
文摘As a carefully designed work, Flannert O'Connor's short story"A Good Man is Hard to Find"is a brilliant example for skillfully using narrative techniques to convey her Catholic faith. Mieke Bal's theories of time in narratology provide a fresh perspective to explores the characterizations in Flannert O'Connor's"A Good Man is Hard to Find". Time functions greatly to the characterizations of the characters through the narrative text in terms of the story and the fabula. It helps to present the characters' personalities by playing with the sequential ordering, rhythm and frequency. By using these narrative techniques, grandmother's selfishness, her moral inanition and her considerations that she is morally superior to others is fully expressed to the reader as well as Misfit's struggling and renascence to his disbeliefs of God and so on.
文摘As one of Langston Hughes' best stories,the short story Early Autumn gives a vivid account of the unexpected meeting between two lovers years after they part and reveals the theme of the character's emotional undercurrents beneath the calm surface.This paper intends to explore Hughes' unique writing skills in this short story from the respects of brief narration,dialogue technique and setting description.
文摘The Linguist Labov develops a model to analyze the narrative,that is,the famous Labov Model.Under this model,Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge is reexamined from abstract,orientation,complicating event(s),resolution,and coda.By this method,Hardy's intention to reveal the tragic life of man will be deeply explored.
文摘This paper maintains that as a biographic novel,The Moon and Six Pence has a unique feature on its narrative techniques.From the perspective of narrative point of view,the paper applies textual analysis to make a detailed study on the narrative structure of the novel and how this narrative structure contributes to the plot and the characterization.
文摘Richard Wright was an African American novelist and critic,whose works were known for the themes of African Ameri-can and racist.And Black Boy(1945)is his autobiographical novel,which consists of two parts:Southern Night and The Horror andthe Glory.It mainly tells about how the protagonist had transformed from an innocent child to a mature youth.This thesis analyzesBlack Boy from the perspective of spatial narrative.Firstly,it analyzes three kinds of narrative spaces:physical space,social spaceand psychological space.Physical space is the real and concrete environment in which the protagonist lives.The five physical spac-es have their own characteristics,which serve as the background of the whole story and foreshadow the growth of the protagonist.So-cial space refers to the current conditions of the society,including the social reality in the space and the values that people have.The social space in the book is full of class,racial discrimination and cultural differences,which is the epitome of the society.Psy-chological space is the subconscious activity of the protagonist’s inner world,including his inner monologue and psychological ac-tivities.The protagonist is eager to establish a world of freedom and equality.
文摘Narrative inquiry is applied to discuss the knowledge generation in teacher and learner learning community,which consists of one English teacher and 27 freshmen in a university in China.It is based on the social constructivism and cooperative learning theories.With the guidance of constructivists' knowledge conception,it aims to illuminate how knowledge is generated in a learning community.Class observation,interview,and journals were applied to collect data in the research.Analysis of the data enables the researcher to arrive at the argument that learners' prior personal and students themselves as knowledge resource are vital for knowledge generation.Furthermore,learning community provide a safe context for knowledge generation.
文摘Ⅰ.文学常识1. dramatic monologue - A poetic or narrative form presented as the speech of one person, in which a dramatic situation is established and a dramatic listener is implied. Its particular tension is between the reader’s initial sympathy for the speaker and the reader’s moral judgement. We understand the speaker’s point of view not only by what he or she says, but also by judging the speaker’s limitations and distortions.
文摘Ⅰ.文学常识1. psychological realism-It is the realistic writing that probes deeply into the complexities of characters’ thoughts and motivations.2. theme-It is the central, unifying point or idea that is made concrete, developed, and explored in the ACTION and the IMATERY of a work of diction.3.climax-It is the turning point or point of highest interest in a narrative, the point at which the
文摘Based on the narrative theory of Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan,the present paper will analyze the close connection between the choice and order of the focalizers and the themes of the novel to show that they are chosen and arranged deliberately and accorded to its themes.
文摘Ⅰ、文学常识1.conflict—It is the tension in a situation between characters,or the actual opposition ofcharacters(usually in drama and fiction but also in narrative poetry).There are mainly three kinfs ofconflict,namely,man against man,man against himself,and man against nature.
