The Preliminary Exploration Of Narrative Point Of View Of The Novels By Akutagawa Ryunosuke

As the leading idol of the New ideological thoughts in the Taisho Period,Akutagawa Ryunosuke values rationality and techniques,emphasis the euphony between the shape and content of the creations.During the thirty-five of his ephemeral yet uneasy life,Akutagawa Ryunosuke leaves the world a collection of 148 short stories and a lot of essays,rambles,comments,notes,travelogues,poems and so on.Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s short stories have a wide range of topic,with the creative plots, profound moral and concise language.These short stories are considered the highest achievement of his literature creations,which catch the attention of numerous researchers.Significant findings,about the writer’s biography and theme of works,have been discovered.But researches about the narrative point of view of Akutagawa’s novels continue to be limited and superficial.However,the incomparable aesthetic value of Akutagawa’s novels is inseparable from his excellent narrate skills,especially on the handling of the express perspective. Narrative point of view is not only a component of writing techniques,but more the key to the depth and aesthetic value of the creations.This paper mainly uses perspective theory of French narratologist Gerard Genette as the basic theoretical basis,along with textual analysis to dissect multiple of his stories,followed by the preliminary discuss of the narrative perspective beauty of Akutagawa’s novels,wishing to enlighten further researches on Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and fundamentally strengthen the understanding of his creations.The essay consists of five parts.The introduction introduces the history and current situation of Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s short stories from domestic researchers and foreign researchers, the methods,goal,meaning of this paper and considerate describe the basic theory of narrative point of view.The first chapter describes type analysis of Akutagawa Ryun osuke’s narrative perspective. Though Toshishun,three valuable jewel s,Junkan,discussing featurefunction,effect of the zero focalization pe rspective,the external focalization perspective,the fixed internal focal ization perspective,the infinitive internal focalization perspective,the multiple internal focalization perspective using in the novel respectiv ely.The second chapter focuses on the specific application of narrative point of view in Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s novels.Firstly,the paper discusses the common ways to use the narrative point of view, which taking Handkerchift, Adventure,Hell change and so forth. The author analysis the shift of the Point of view within the zero focalization and and the transformation of the zero focalization and other modes of focalization through two aspects.Secondly,the uncommon ways to use the narrative point of view are expounded,lying special stress on the cross-border perspective.The third chapter studies the main reasons for the choices of narrative point of view in novels by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. The statistics shows that the zero focalization is one of his most frequently used mode. The second mode is the internal focalization.However,the external focalization,which is used rarely. The formation of perspective is relevant to these important factors: the nature of Chinese classic literature; the scatter perspective method of Chinese Landscape painting;the author’s idiosyncrasy of personality; the flourish of Japanese Private novel in the Taisho PeriodThe last part is the conclusion, which summarizes the whole article.In order to provide some beneficial reference and enlightenment to the creation of modern and contemporary short novel,it points out the continue efforts to dig the inherent law and unique contribution of Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s novels in multi-level,multi-view and multi-aspect.