Title: The Structure of Pseudo-Myth and Its Significance——Several Novels in "the Seventeen-year Period" Reinterpreted
Abstract: There is a narrative structure of pseudo-myth based on an opposite distinction of positive characters and negative characters in some novels during the seventeen-year period.Compared with the narrative structure of true myth in Chinese and foreign literary or religious classics,the narrative structure of pseudo-myth is similar in form but different in significance.In the similar form of narrative structure,positive characters,negative characters and middle characters in the pseudo-myth displaces gods,devils and those sunk humans in the true myth;accordingly,the expression of limitations of human nature is simplified by the stereotype of the god′s battle against the devil.All these relations prove the far-reaching traditional influence and the common social psychological basis of the narrative structure of the pseudo-myth in many novels in the seventeen-year period.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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