Abstract
The family can be viewed as a reflector of culture, which becomes increasingly rich and varied as time goes by. It is like a person who undergoes all the vicissitudes of human beings' experiences, so it is not only a valuable specimen for us to have a better understanding of the course of human history but also an important basis for us to know ourselves. For this reason, the family novels have always been a extremely flexible and rich narrative genre, which represent complex social performance and the culture world in both eastern and western literature.
This thesis is focused on Mo Yan's four novels related to the family. They were "Red Sorghum Family", " herbivorous Family", " Big Breasts & Wide Hips", and " Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out". For one thing, we deconstructed the survival ethics masked in these novels, analyzed the heroic image described in these novels, and discussed the issue of "degradation of species ". In what follows, we explored the underlying love ethic in these novels from the two perspectives: the suspension of moral and the reversion of tradition. Previous studies have demonstrated that in Mo Yan's family novels, making the flesh public is used as a method of unfolding primitive vitality. Third, we delved into the connotation after the pleasure of making love (body of pleasure) through an analysis of Mo Yan's praising body and preference over the land and lower body. Mo Yan's family novels are also filled with the plots about hunger and violence. Finally, we attempted to investigate the narrative skills and moral of Mo Yan's family novels. With the fact that Mo Yan elaborated the plots, his works about the family are one of the most brilliant novels. These novels describe the lifeblood of both paternal and maternal family system; they also revealed the implications about Mo Yan's viewpoints on the relationship between nation and country in the society intertwined with war, hunger, and violence.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0828112-225959 |
| Date | 28 August 2012 |
| Creators | Chuang, Yen-Yu |
| Contributors | Chen Chang-Ming, Yan Mei-juan, Chen qi-You, Gong Shien-zong, Zhang Qing-rong |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0828112-225959 |
| Rights | user_define, Copyright information available at source archive |
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