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Inheritance Of Strength

Posted on:2008-04-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J T YaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215999564Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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The text gets a comprehensive analysis on the relation between Calvino's works and folk literature, from the angle of folk literature among else, based on which, the great significance carried by world-famous Italian writer Calvino, is summarized. First, the availability of research on Calvino's works from the aspect of folk literature is fixed. Undoubtedly, his creation has a close relationship to folk tales, the element of which has never gone from his works. Calvino's collecting and refinings work about folk tales Italian Folktales published. Serves the mative for a profound research on folk literature. Both his childhood and rich imagination reach a perfect spiritual harmony with folk literature, which dooms a temperamental impact on his literature.After a comprehensive analysis on the folk literature angle of Calvino's works, the text furthermore searches for his exteact about the experiences of folk literature creation, based on his only works of theory Six Memos for the Next Millennium, with the five chapters of Six Memos for the Next Millennium: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity. Then the text will focus on a search for the remains of folk literature in his works since the rationality of the analysis from folk literature angle. There will be four aspects for presenting the folk literature style in Calvino's works: 1,The unity of poetic and implied significance, the observation current living condition in a fresh are flexible form. 2,About structure ,"long novels with short fiction structure", for Calvino is convinced that only fiction-structure has infinitive power in presentation, and varies his thinking at a moment, which fits human-thinking activity. 3,Calvino tries to uncover folk tales, the most important principle of which is"oral", moreover, he makes his language simple and clear with benefit of"oral"method in his works. 4, Then, there is a "fairy"aesthetic quality is his works, partially from his rich imagination, and more from his real response to a fairy feeling about post-modern living condition and mental crisis. The sublimation of the text with realistic Significance is to show the hard work and contribution to the inheritance of lively literature convention made by Calvino, a writer of great sense of responsibility. In his works, we see the spirit to promote an ative equal interation instead of merely dualism opposition, and an effective conversation on literature between scholar and folk, traditional and modem, oral and written.Finally, an introduction to Calvino, together with his major works, and his accomplishments has been mentioned.
Keywords/Search Tags:Italo Calvino, the folk literature, " Italian Folktales "
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