Analysis The Story Types Of The Comeuppance Novels In Three Collections Of Fictions By Feng-menglong And The Thought Causes | | Posted on:2010-09-18 | Degree:Master | Type:Thesis | | Country:China | Candidate:H X Wang | Full Text:PDF | | GTID:2195360275986548 | Subject:Ancient Chinese literature | | Abstract/Summary: | | | Since the 1920s,a Japanese professor introduced a new collection of short vernacular stories of the Ming Dynasty in his article which named Three Collections of Fictions of the Ming Dynasty Novel,the academic research of Three Collections of Fictions has not been interrupted.The early research of "Three Collections of Fictions" focused on the study of the writer' s life,the collection of stories and the origin of the stories,the analysis of the works and so on..In recent years,because the "Three Collections of Fictions " was more and more researched in depth,more contents were studied and the achievements were enough:the focus also changed towards the development of commodity economy in the Ming Dynasty,culture and customs,social ethics,the values of members of the public,the changes of social status,the images of different people, narrative view and so on..In the process of studying above various problems,many scholars recognized that "Three Collections of Fictions "contained many contents of comeuppance.But a majority of researchers denied the pattern of comeuppance in the ancient story,they affirmed that the advocacy about comeuppance liked "opium" and played a negative role and could weaken the spirit of the people's resistance.Only a small number of scholars recognized that the comeuppance in the story of Three Collections of Fictions had played a role of education and they also recognized the ideological value from a "expostulate" point of view.But they mostly focused on the relative microscopic aspects of the origin of individual stories and the intention of the author's education:the papers which choose a macroscopic view for analyzing and evaluating the story comeuppance of Three Collections Of Fictions and its reflected period thought as a whole were very seldom. Innovation of this article is:Firstly,on the basis of absorbing the past Three Collections of Fictions research materials and results,we analysis and classified the stories of Three Collections of Fictions according to the types of subject and thoughts.Secondly,starting from the combination of Confucianism and Buddhism and Taoism in the Ming Dynasty,the values of the public members,the new social thoughts and cultural background,we analysis the comeuppance stories of Three Collections of Fictions which reflected the psychology and the religious culture and moral values.Finally,through generalizing and evaluating all types of comeuppance of stories,we objectively explained the literature and thought values of the Three Collections of Fictions under the specific historical background.There are many research methods in this article,such as the literature of history research method,the Philosophy research method, the comprehensive research method,the comparative research method and so on..Through analyzing and summarizing the story of comeuppance of Three Collections of Fictions.we made the following conclusions:Three Collections of Fictions contained the various stories of comeuppance about subject of the combination of Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism.Both of these stories maintained the feudalism of propriety as well as affirmed passion,they showed the complex and diverse thoughts of comeuppance.This was the philosophy thought of Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism in Ming Dynasty combined with the influence of personality liberation of the Ming Dynasty in the late for literature production.We could conclude Feng Meng-long pursued the "golden mean"between "passion" and "reason",between "elegance" and "vulgarity" from the comeuppance stories of Three Collections Of Fictions.According to the historical background,stories and history of the development and the transformation of social custom,the comeuppance stories of Three Collections of Fictions played the progressive and positive role. | | Keywords/Search Tags: | comeuppance, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, "passion" and "reason", social significance | | Related items |
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