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On The Boudoir Life Narration Of Eileen Chang’s Novels

Posted on:2016-06-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330461950033Subject:Modern and Contemporary Literature
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By analyzing the subject of boudoir life of Eileen Chang’s novels, and exploring the way through which family life, marriage and love shows from three aspects,which are the formation of the family members’ character, the aesthetic meaning of family daily life and the traditional novel of boudoir life from which Eileen Chang learned, And find Eileen Chang family trivial detail boudoir life personalities shaping has artistic rendering. However, the author did not form on all kinds of family and marriage for subjective criticism, but from life or the essence of life, showing the original appearance of life. In her novel, she never tired of carefully depicting scenes of life, each family life characters, each with characteristics of the image of the relationship between actions and words and between characters, showing a typical Chinese have a sense of old family, revealing the existence of family and marriage difficulties behind. Eileen Chang’s foundation is desolation, unlike the description of the Dream of Red Mansion on the mood of really glory and joyous, glory and joyous to the height, though often vaguely the tragical bell tolled. Eileen Chang wrote joyness with a veil on it, after all, it has the aesthetic heritage behind desolation. Whether it is from the family relationship and personalities shaping the character, or everyday household aesthetic performance, but also for the traditional family boudoir novel inheritance and transformation, reflects the concern of Eileen Chang intended to seize the essence of life and strong desire.This paper is composed of three parts, introduction, the body and the conclusion. Introduction mainly researches the origin and significance of this topic from the family boudoir, combing research status of novels by family theme and research methods of writing papers. The whole body is divided into three chapters: The first chapter analyzes the shape of family boudoir curtain figures, mainly from the female point of view and the whole extended family. The second chapter discusses the aesthetic meaning of family boudoir’s daily life. The third chapter takes the Dream of Red Mansion as an example from the traditional family boudoir novel which appearedin Eileen Chang,and shows the unique insights of Eileen Chang on the theme of family boudoir from two aspects of appearance and transformation. Conclusion is a narrative summary of Eileen Chang’s family boudoir writing issues.
Keywords/Search Tags:Eileen Chang, family narration, aesthetic meaning, traditional novel
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