The Recovery Of Classical Culture In Post-modern Context

Content: From 2003 till now, has winning great success in global book market, becomes a fiercely "Dan Brown tornado". Afterwards Dan Brown's other three novels: , and also rapidly becomes popular. This article tries to analyze all the novels of Dan Brown and finding the reason of his success.Chapter 1 discusses the inheritance relations between Dan Brown's novels and the traditional classical novels. Dan Brown is deeply influenced by Shakespeare and John Steinbeck. He also uses some methods of traditional popular novels, such as Gothic novel, spying novel and high tech novel.Chapter 2 elaborates Dan Brown's novels'narrative strategy. Dan Brown has inherited the traditional novel's narrative strategy, uses smooth narrative and "the God angle of view", especially use more doubts and narrative rotation, it's a kind of classical narrative pattern. Chapter 3 discusses the subjects of Dan Brown's novels. Just like the subject of realism literature, Dan Brown's subjects are close with today's society. Including belief, science and religious, life in information time, political confidence level and so on, are all very great and classical.Chapter 4 discusses the knowledge introduced in Dan Brown's novels. Including religion, history, the artistic history, the mark study and so on. His novels also contain some culture theories, like "the New Age Movement"theory in . These classical knowledge and the cultural connotation make Dan Brown's novels deeper.Chapter 5 analyzes the relations between Dan Brown's novels and the postmodern culture. Dan Brown's novels are created in postmodern time. His novels use many postmodern skills, just like subversion and disintegration etc. so Dan Brown's novels have many features of postmodern literature.Summing up, we think that Dan Brown novel is the combination of classical culture and postmodern context. On one hand, Dan Brown novel is close with classical culture. Dan Brown novel inherited the tradition of classic novels: pay attention to plot setup, subject positioning and rhetoric. His novels also involve much classic cultural knowledge. It's "a return to basics" in postmodern time. The other hand, Dan Brown novel is closely related to postmodern culture. This is not only reflected in his novel's popular cultural background, but also reflected in its post-modern literature features.