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My Name Is Read: Interpretation Of "Uncertainty"

Posted on:2012-10-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X J HeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330338455825Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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My Name Is Red is the representative works of Orhan Pamuk from Turkish. It is one of the post-modern literary classic too. Researchers paid more attention to the theme of culture from My Name Is Red. But, the paper thinks that cultural conflict is one of prominent themes on My Name Is Red. And there is another important theme in this novel that Pamuk with "uncertainty" as a clue to combine extensive of historical novels, the heavy cultural theme, the deep philosophical reflection, the Stimulation of detective story and beautiful fairy tale of love perfect in the cradle of the post-modern literature. As a leader in anti-detective fiction, it promotes development of the story with suspense in traditional detective novel, and then there is no trial, no punishment, and no such thing as right or wrong in the end to break reader's expectations.it take together interesting with profound.In the narrative mode, the novel make narrative person, narrative perspective, the reliability and unreliability of the narrator repeatedly transform through the "uncertainty", it construct a narrative maze:The concept and dead can act as a narrator; A character can be divided into two or more roles who recount in a novel; Narrative perspective will be exchanged between a limited third-person and the omniscient first-person; Cruel murderer will get the reader's trust, but innocent children will arouse the reader's suspicion.Expression in the subject, the novel include the truth or fiction about historical, essence and meaning of life, cultural conflict and integration and so on. Meanwhile, the novel through details and "uncertainty" suggests richness that unspoken theme far more than specified content. Modern society is full of "uncertainty", and the spirit of post-modern literature is about "uncertainty" too. By exploration the genre, the narrative mode and the theme of "uncertainty" on My Name Is Red, Pamuk fully exposes "uncertainty" in Modern society, and this reveals have sufficient practical significance to the modern people.
Keywords/Search Tags:My Name Is Red, "uncertainty", anti-detective fiction
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