A Comparative Study Of Humour Novel Between China And The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland

“Humurous Story” is a common literature feature in both Chinese and Englishliterature history, and occupies a specific status in the development history of bothChinese and English novels.“Humurous Story” rose along with the development ofnovel, and experienced different development processes in the two countries, andpresented unique features and styles of each other. Comparison and analysis of them willnot only help us to have a better understanding of the difference between Chinese andEnglish humurous stories, learn from each other for mutual development, but alsoprovide guiding significance to the creation of current humurous art. Therefore, I chosethose relatively typical works from the humurous story field of each age in this thesis; thetime span spreads from18thcentury to20thcentury, and is devided into3parts.Part I generally described the humor in both China and England. First, this thesisdiscussed the creation and development of humor in China and England and thedefinition of the word “humor” in both dictionary and aesthetics. Second, this thesiscompared two similar concepts: humor and irony, and classified irony with absurdity intothe scope of humor. And last, it discussed the development process of Chinese andEnglish humurous stories, and made preparation for further research in this thesis.Part II conducted comparative study of the ideological connotation of Chinese andEnglishe humurous stories. First, it discussed that ironic humor has a long history andtradition in both Chinese and English novel history; this thesis made the comparativestrudy through the angles of politics, economics and historic development, and presentedthe historical inevitability of its appearance. Second, this thesis conducted thecomparative strudy of the criticalness of Chinese and English humurous stories inaesthetic significance. And last, it discussed the aethetic connotation of Chinese andEnglish humurous stories.Part III conducted the comparative strudy of the difference and similarities ofexpression skills between Chinese and English humurous stories. Chinese and Englishhumurous story express the humor through “disclosing incongruity and unreasonablethings in life by expression skills of representation, irony and pun, etc”. It also discussed the differences of Chinese and English humurous stories on obtaining humor throughcontradiction and the use of these expression skills.Most of the existing academic researches in current academic circle aimed atconducting one to one parallel study or influence study of individual writer in China andEngland, but did not contain the general description of the comprehensive appearance ofhumurous story in both China and England. This thesis mainly conducted thecomprehensive and macroscopic comparison and discussion of main features of Chineseand English humurous stories through parallel study, and tried to explore the reason andinfluence of these differences through cross-culture study of literature, history, aestheticsand culture.