碩士 / 國立中興大學 / 外國語文學系所 / 103 / Abstract
Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, since publication, has been well received by the press and community as an amazing adventure tale, written with warmth and grace. Many critics examine the novel from the perspectives of religions, animals, or the last part of the story, the ethic issue. However, as the novel consists mainly of Pi’s life before adulthood, this paper focus on the growth of Pi through his miserable and miraculous travel, demonstrating Life of Pi as a Twenty-first century Bildungsroman.
The paper comprises three parts. The first part starts with a brief historical overview of the Bildungsroman and then discusses M.M. Bakhtin’s analysis on the genre and its connection to Pi. The second part foregrounds the traditional elements of the Bildungsroman and tries to explore and demonstrate the inheritances of the traditional Bildungsroman in Pi such as quest of the father (mentor), double bind, and the emergence of the new man. The last part aims to look into the new elements of Pi—ethnic youth, ocean and the spatial mobility as motifs of the twenty-first century Bildungsroman. In conclusion, except for the discussion of the hybridity of the novel, the paper tries to examine the different version of Pi’s adventure in the end of the novel, and tackles the concept of the authenticity, which echoes one of motifs of twenty-first century Bildungsroman.
Key Words: Bildungsroman, M.M. Bakhtin, double bind, ethnic youth, ocean, the spatial mobility, authenticity
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/103NCHU5094005 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Yu-Sheng Hsiao, 蕭有盛 |
| Contributors | Fiona Feng-Hsin Liu, 劉鳳芯 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 82 |
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