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Narrative Study Of Walter Moers’ "Zamonien" Series Fiction

Posted on:2017-02-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330488494676Subject:Children's literature
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Walter Moers is a famous German writer of children’s literature. He combineds fantasy with the exploration of literary form, and his pluralistic narrative creates all kinds of strange fantasy stories, which makes his novels have a broad field of vision and a richful meaning of space. Its narrative style and skills has certain groundbreaking in the creation of contemporary fiction, and this kind of to create very have the exploratory meaning.Moers showing the unique charm of fantasy space -the "Zamonien" world by its geographical space, gothic elements and details of the fantasy. "Zamonien" series of stories are constructed in the theme of "pursue" pattern, the pursuit of significance of its hero fraught with uncertainty because the use of the "memory" narrative perspective in the text. Moers often uses factor of fantasy into their cognition and reflection on the reality in his works, he combined symbol and metaphor narrative, the fantasy and reality are blended together, texts showing the depth of the reality has more possibilities. He created many different types of fantasy image in the framework of narrative space with children’s purity and something divine are used as the aesthetic dimensions, build a fantasy space full of intersubjectivity.Moers break the novel fictional reality by the presentation of metafiction narrative elements, to question the traditional narrative, and a large number of open writing and reading with overturn conventional in his "Zamonien" series of works, to a certain extent, establishing multinational and plentiful postmodern landscape of the fantasy genre. In his fiction, he often interrupts the continuity of narrative structure, makes comments directly on the narrative itself, and actively discuss several possible story ends with the reader; The double identity of characters in the novel, make complete self-sufficiency "second world" frame is broken, text to create a sense of reality is dispelled:Fantasy behavior itself became a story at the same time, the repeated use of self story is a reflection of his novel self-consciousness. Moers with "fantasy"as the means, through various ways to let the reader feel the text inner fiction.By the narrative strategy of "intertextuality" and the coexistence and interaction of text, the writer construct stories. Text to remake of folk fairy tales, the intertextuality of his stories exist between adult literature writers and their works, and "Zamonien" series of text. In the form of "intertextuality" text, gameplay and revelry fictional world is established in literary network, making works more bizarre and providing the reader with the extension of think space and imagination, which endow texts open and multiple definitions. At the same time, he will be fictional strength to the limit and have a good insight into the real world of deep structure and rules, with "parody" technique to explore the tension and contradictions in reality.In the "Zamonien" series of fantasy novels, on the one hand, a magical and absurd "Zamonien" world is created, on the other hand break the possibility of the existence of fantasy world, leading the reader into his relaxed and implication profound narrative. The pursuit of narrative form in his fantasy stories, as well as the excavation and awareness of the text value and meaning in Walter Moers’s novels makes his fiction with the structure of the postmodern characteristics and internal refined.
Keywords/Search Tags:Walter Moers, "Zamonien" world, Narratolog, Fantasy image, Metafictionality, Intertextuality
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