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On Li Bihua Novel The Legend Of Narrative

Posted on:2011-11-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360305488287Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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LiBiHua is one of the best writers in the literary world of Hong Kong. Her novels are unique, tortuous, exaggeration, eerie, and with a "legendary" feature. This article takes "legendary narration" as the point of view and analyzes the art world of LiBiHua, in order to discuss her spirit exploring and art pursuing.First to investigate her writing style from three aspects: Hong Kong cultural context, Chinese traditional culture and personal literary tastes. LiBiHua grow and live in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong special cultural context restricted the creation of her novels into a certain extent. Especially, the colonial context lead to her pursuit of Hong Kong consciousness and identity. She is infatuated with the Chinese traditional culture. So the novels are always contain thick classical complex. At the same time, LiBiHua is deeply influenced by Buddhism. Buddhism values and ways of its thinking affect her life philosophy, culture and aesthetic pursuit.The novel world of LiBiHua is wonderful. She is good at writing love, and most of them are strange feeling. The main characters in her novels are almost special human or ghosts. When in narrative, she tend to make a kind of mystery, ghostly and eerie atmosphere. All these make her novels present full-bodied legend characteristics. Through these legends, LiBiHua takes a deep thought in the humanity and the relationship between men and women.She watch the whole world in a station outside the world, and keeping waken.The legendary narrative strategy of LiBiHua is the key of the research. This article borrows the "intertextuality" theory, to investigate "The rewriting of traditional stories" of LiBiHua. Start from "the historical break, being frustrated place", by the Legend story mode which readers are familiar with, Reying on the modern urban life to counter-view, brings the new experience to the people, provides the irritating quality. At the same time, the consciousness of "writing for the screen " promptes her to bring the thinking mode and art means of screenplay into the creation of novels consciously or unconsciously, to make the novel with the "visual modelling characteristic". The use of montage technique strengthening the legendary color of the novels.
Keywords/Search Tags:legendary, Narrative, Narrativing
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