The Image Of India Written By Kipling

Since ancient times, British writers have never stopped exploring and imagining India. Joseph Rudyard Kipling who was awarded The1907Nobel Prize in Literature was an important member of them. He wrote many novels with outstanding talent for narration and imagination about mysterious and distant India for British readers. These short stories are full of Oriental India exotic. They describe artistically a life picture of English colonists and native residents in India. His works present a colorful, complex and attractive image of India. This paper adopts the method of the combination of text analysis and theory summary, takes Kipling’s Indian novels as the main research object, refers to image studies of comparative literature and postcolonial theory, investigates image of India in Kipling’s works systematically.This paper consists of five chapters. The first chapter is the introduction. T he second chapter reviews image of India in works of British writers who lived before the20th century. The third chapter and the fourth chapter mainly focus on text analysis, investigate image of India constructed by Kipling from image of Indian society and image of Indian native residents. The fifth chapter starts with analyzing function, context and mental mechanism of construction of image of India, reviews and evaluates image of India written by Kipling deeply.This paper is based on previous studies, researches image of India in Kipling’s works overall and deeply from the perspective of image studies of comparative literature. Based on the image studies, this paper consists of internal research of the text and external research of text, researches image of India in Kipling’s works from two aspects of aesthetic and historical and cultural context. I hope it can help us understand the relationship between aesthetic and ideology in Kipling’s works deeply.