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On Narrative Voice Of Post-80s Novels

Posted on:2012-11-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C C GuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330335458648Subject:Literature and art
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For recent years,post-80s novels have accounted for half of the book market. They brought a new atmosphere to the literary,for example the love stories,mysteries,aesthetic or cruel stories which showed distinct times.Although these novels showed diverse contens and different styles, tThey have shown common characteristics on narrative voice.And because of the social characteristics of literary form,they are all point to writers'common experience.So this paper's start point is that through significant form to study 80s writers'experience about times.In post-80s novels, narrative voice appeared common features such as description of the main carnival or sadness or zero-writing.As "80s"general moods, sadness has a relationship with loneliness first.The reasons why they are lonely are that the rapid urbanization in the eighties and nineties as well as they are independence generation. Fragmentation of industrial society made them lost themselves and then turn to seek sadness. They are unable to face the hypocrisy of the adult world but only to enter the world with sadness.Carnival voice is from Bakhtin's carnival theory.He think that carnival is the release of the original passion after out of rational constraint. As a youth subculture,post-80s literature against the mainstream culture, advocate freedom,personality,nature and against mainstream culture's hypocrisy,rules and rationality.To some extent this just fit the mechanism of Bakhtin's,besides,the opening and concealed network provide them a carnival square.Zero-writing is a transparent way of writing in which writers try to go outside their novel. Because of writer's cognitive crisis and powerlessness of the world,the novel only tell a story but not involved in writer's emotion. It is a way of writing under the age of technology.Post-80s writer Li Shasha play the role of rural and urban's.He tride to been an observer and stay away from them. Returning to the literary tradition also prompted him to choose the way of zero- writing.
Keywords/Search Tags:Post-80s novels, Narrative voice, Sadness, Carniva, Zero-writing
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