How to write a beautiful story？ It is an important question to Chinese writers because novel has not been regarded as a formal genre until late Qing Dynasty. Pu Songling answers this question with his work Liao zhai ...How to write a beautiful story？ It is an important question to Chinese writers because novel has not been regarded as a formal genre until late Qing Dynasty. Pu Songling answers this question with his work Liao zhai zhi yi （Strange tales from a Chinese studio）. This paper aims to study his narrative arts. There are four sections included. In part 1, this paper introduces a definition of the aesthetic dialectics and its embodiment in Chinese classical literary theory; in part 2, this paper takes the Liao zhai story as example to interpret Pu Songling＇s dialectic relation between description and narration; in part 3, I will show how Liao zhai presents beauty by unexpected but reasonable changes; and in last part, I give more importance to the stories concerning ordinary things for the reason that Pu Songling could make them interesting and beautiful. In the end, the paper concludes that Pu Songling is successful storyteller by using dialectic arts, which should be learned by Chinese writers.展开更多
Aesthetic distance in literature refers to the distance between the reader and the work which is controlled by the author through applying different narrative skills. Proper distance can help the reader develop psycho...Aesthetic distance in literature refers to the distance between the reader and the work which is controlled by the author through applying different narrative skills. Proper distance can help the reader develop psychological reflection during the reading process, then the reader can judge the work objectively and gets great pleasure from reading, and thus, the aesthetic effect is achieved. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain controls the distance between Huck, the narrator and the reader; the distance between Huck, the unreliable narrator and Huck, the character successfully, which result in strong artistic effect.展开更多
文摘How to write a beautiful story？ It is an important question to Chinese writers because novel has not been regarded as a formal genre until late Qing Dynasty. Pu Songling answers this question with his work Liao zhai zhi yi （Strange tales from a Chinese studio）. This paper aims to study his narrative arts. There are four sections included. In part 1, this paper introduces a definition of the aesthetic dialectics and its embodiment in Chinese classical literary theory; in part 2, this paper takes the Liao zhai story as example to interpret Pu Songling＇s dialectic relation between description and narration; in part 3, I will show how Liao zhai presents beauty by unexpected but reasonable changes; and in last part, I give more importance to the stories concerning ordinary things for the reason that Pu Songling could make them interesting and beautiful. In the end, the paper concludes that Pu Songling is successful storyteller by using dialectic arts, which should be learned by Chinese writers.
文摘Aesthetic distance in literature refers to the distance between the reader and the work which is controlled by the author through applying different narrative skills. Proper distance can help the reader develop psychological reflection during the reading process, then the reader can judge the work objectively and gets great pleasure from reading, and thus, the aesthetic effect is achieved. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain controls the distance between Huck, the narrator and the reader; the distance between Huck, the unreliable narrator and Huck, the character successfully, which result in strong artistic effect.
