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This dissertation proposes an inclusive and extensive examination of the fiction of William Golding with regard to both theme and structure. Golding's essential view of man's nature, the dissertation contends, is that it is rationally inexplicable; his is essentially a religious vision, for he holds that man's nature contains a mystery or "darkness." Each fable is a variation on a common preoccupation, for in them Golding explores the dictum of Proverbs 23:18 that "where there is no vision, the people perish." In the five fables here examined the dissertation argues that Golding constructs a mythopoeia which he considers relevant to contemporary man. In Golding's view, contemporary man lacks vision; he experiences mystery only as malignancy not holiness. Man abstracts from his violence and projects it as fear of a demon which will destroy him. Thus in the fiction the central symbol for the spiritual dimension is darkness and the central symbolic episode is the nightmare world where character undergoes atavistic reordering. By use of the fable form, remote settings, circumscribed point of view, and an unusual structure, Golding strives to make the life of the spirit become a reality, at least in the imaginative realm. The specific structure of a Golding fable involves two frames—pattern and counterpattern—and is described in the dissertation as "an ideographic structure." Following the plot's major movement there is in all the fables a coda ending which reverses the expectations of the first movement. Towards the end of each fable the reader moves from the protagonist's point of view and enters abruptly into another character's point of view on the same situation. Golding intends that the two perspectives are to be linked, not contradictory. The bridge between the apparently contradictory perspectives is to be built by the reader who is driven.by the paradoxical structure of each fable to accept paradoxes of existence which are to Golding symptoms of the spiritual world. Other technical features contribute to the fiction's emphasis on the spiritual; chief among these are the subversion of literary models and the use of what is called "the confrontation scene." Each fable has its genesis in another writer's view of the same situation. Thus, for example, Lord of the Flies ironically subverts Ballantyne's Coral Island while Free Fall gives a sensual inversion of the spiritual values of Dante's Vita Nuova. Such a strategy of indirection informs the confrontation scene, a massively sculpted episode which functions in the individual fable as a single crystallisation of that fable's total ideographic structure. In it the protagonist is forced through some fearful but ambiguous purgation to encounter his own psychic landscape and thus the scene brings about the kind of thematic conjunction between two worlds which occurs in structural terms in the specific fable. The dissertation examines the validity of these propositions in the fiction up to and including The Spire. The "Introduction" and individual sections in subsequent chapters place Golding's notoriety in the context of contemporary criticism. Over the years a rigid interpretation has developed which sees the writer's engagement as a religious apologia where each new novel is a tour de force, showing by means of contrived allegory man's depravity sub specie aeternitatis. Such a literary cliche is damaging to a contemporary author, it is argued, since it makes him the victim rather than forger of his own reputation, forever feeding the doctrinaire orthodoxy of literary presuppositions. Golding's numerous comments in interviews indicate his unease here. There is a progressive evolution from an externally wrested structure where pattern sublates pattern to an internally realized structure. There is a parallel thematic development as the darkness of man's heart as represented in Lord of the Flies modulates into the central opacity of man's heart as represented in The Spire. Throughout its seven chapters, the dissertation incorporates into discussion of the fables Golding's minor works—autobiographical essay in The Hot Gates; two short stories, "The Anglo Saxon" and "Miss Pulkinhorn"; the novella, Envoy Extraordinary; two unpublished plays, "Break My Heart" and "Miss Pulkinhorn," as well as extensive conversations which were conducted with Golding by the dissertation writer over a period of two years. Unpublished material such as this was made available by the author himself and represent, in the context of Golding criticism, the first instance of treatment to date. The "Conclusion" closes on a brief examination of The Pyramid and its modified use of some of the technical features already explored. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

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手稿本. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院中國語文學部. / Shou gao ben. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 482-489). / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan Zhongguo yu wen xue bu. / 前言 --- p.1 / Chapter 上　編 --- 蕭紅傳略 / Chapter 第一章 --- 從遷墓說起 --- p.6 / Chapter 第二章 --- 小時候 --- p.13 / Chapter 第三章 --- 哈爾濱´ؤ´ؤ從溫室到漫天風雨 --- p.23 / Chapter 第四章 --- 在青島 --- p.54 / Chapter 第五章 --- 在上海´ؤ´ؤ光輝的歲月　 --- p.59 / Chapter 第六章 --- 東京之旅´ؤ´ؤ孤獨的日子 --- p.75 / Chapter 第七章 --- 重回上海´ؤ´ؤ一段哀傷的插曲 --- p.83 / Chapter 第八章 --- 武漢´ؤ臨汾´ؤ西安´ؤ武漢 --- p.87 / Chapter 第九章 --- 在重慶 --- p.106 / Chapter 第十章 --- 香港´ؤ生命的終站　 --- p.111 / Chapter 第十一章 --- 蕭紅是個怎樣的人 --- p.123 / Chapter 下編 --- 蕭紅小說研究 / Chapter 第一章 --- 引言 --- p.135 / Chapter 第二章 --- 生死場 --- p.138 / Chapter 第三章 --- 馬伯樂 --- p.198 / Chapter 第四章 --- 呼蘭河傳 --- p.250 / Chapter 第五章 --- 手 --- p.286 / Chapter 第六章 --- 橋 --- p.315 / Chapter 第七章 --- 牛車上 --- p.337 / Chapter 第八章 --- 朦朧的期待 --- p.365 / Chapter 第九章 --- 小城三月 --- p.385 / Chapter 第十章 --- 綜論 --- p.406 / 注釋 --- p.426 / 參考資料 --- p.482 / 蕭紅年表 --- p.490 / 蕭紅一生走過的路（圖） --- p.494 / 後記 --- p.495

林錦源. / 論文(碩士) -- 香港中文大學硏究院歷史學部,1995. / 參考文獻: leaves 164-176. / Lin Jinyuan. / 摘要 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 緖論 --- p.2 / Chapter 第二章 --- 汪康年的家世與生平 --- p.7 / Chapter 第三章 --- 《時務報》刊行前汪康年的改革思想 --- p.17 / Chapter 第一節 --- 與洋務派的交往 --- p.17 / Chapter 第二節 --- 與維新派的接觸 --- p.23 / Chapter 第三節 --- 甲午戰爭後汪康年的改革思想 --- p.27 / Chapter 第四節 --- 上海強學會的發展 --- p.30 / Chapter 第四章 --- 汪康年與《時務報》 --- p.51 / Chapter 第一節 --- 上海與維新思潮 --- p.51 / Chapter 第二節 --- 汪康年與《時務報》的籌辦 --- p.55 / Chapter 第三節 --- 《時務報》與維新運動 --- p.60 / Chapter 第四節 --- 《時務報》的內在分歧 --- p.64 / Chapter 第五章 --- 從《時務報》到《昌言報》 --- p.103 / Chapter 第六章 --- 戊戌政變以後汪康年的改革思想 --- p.119 / Chapter 第七章 --- 總結與評價 --- p.132 / 附錄一 〈中國公會章程〉 --- p.144 / 附錄二 〈上海強學會章程〉 --- p.148 / 附圖一 --- p.153 / 附圖二 --- p.154 / 附表一 --- p.155 / 附表二 --- p.157 / 附表三 --- p.158 / 附表四 --- p.159 / 附表五 --- p.162 / 附表六 --- p.163 / 參考書目 --- p.164