Research On Japanese Light Novei As A Functional Text

Light Novel is a brand-new genre of literature, which is originally born in Japan, and it is fairly popular among adolescents. In recent years, with the booming of Japanese animation, comic and game, light novel’s influence is expanding more and more in East Asia region, even the whole world. Rooted deeply in the ACG(Animation, Comic, Game) industry, light novel is an important part of the whole industry. On the one hand, light novel works as the script and fundamental of animation, comic and game. On the other hand, outstanding animation, comic, or game works can also be adapted into light novel. Under this complex circumstance, the status of light novel becomes extremely complicated. As a result, this thesis attempted to approach light novel from a different aspect.The most significant difference between light novel and other literature works should be its assignable function, which is also the main topic we are going to discuss in the following passage.The key word of this thesis, function, is its subjectivity. How to satisfy the audiences’ needs of subjectivity is the basic question which light novel writers have to face. During light novel’s history, some common value and writing styles are settled.The main goal of this thesis is to find out the reasons and phenomenon of the function of light novel. As a matter of fact, light novel works as a kind of functional text rather than a normal novel. To realize this goal, many methods are applied into this thesis, such as text study, Feminism Criticism, Russian Formalism and Psychoanalytic criticism. Also, field study and other external study methods are applied into this thesis as well to help find the reasons and expressions of its function.