Characterization in Sea of Woe

Egan, M. P.; Dolezelova-Velingerova, Milena

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“…As I dem on strate, a dis course of pathol ogy is prev a lent in both stories. This dis course pro vi des a ratio nal expla na tion of the super nat u ral, but it enables the author to exper i ment with indi vid ual nar ra tive voice and direct rep re sen ta tion of the inte rior space, both inno va tions in late Qing lit er a ture (see Egan 1980;Hanan 2004: 165;Huters 2005a).…”

Section: New Fiction As a Vehicle For National Enlightenmentmentioning

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Anatomy of the Superstitious Mind: Subjectivity and Interiority in Two Early Twentieth-Century Rebuttals to Liaozhai's Records of the Strange

Wang

2024

Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies

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Focusing on the issue of psychological portrayal, this essay examines two early twentieth-century rebuttals of Liaozhai's Records of the Strange published in newly founded Chinese fiction magazines. Although the two rebuttals lend themselves easily to a didactic interpretation, the essay argues that their demystification of the supernatural is equally in service of literary representation of individualized subjectivity endowed with interiority. Besides aligning itself with the ongoing efforts to recover alternative forms of modernity repressed by the May Fourth discourse, this essay endeavors to contribute to a fuller understanding of the diversity of ideologies, forms, and styles in so-called new fiction.

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Section: New Fiction As a Vehicle For National Enlightenmentmentioning

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Anatomy of the Superstitious Mind: Subjectivity and Interiority in Two Early Twentieth-Century Rebuttals to Liaozhai's Records of the Strange

Wang

2024

Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies

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“…Describing the application of FID as an intermediary stage in its development, he remarks: in Hen Hai, the use of represented discourse "is not yet fully developed or mastered, but there are indications of the blurring of lines between the narrator's text and the character's text" (Egan, 1980, pp.170-172). So, Egan highlights the function of FID in the psychological characterization (Egan, 1980). It should be noted that Egan uses the term of "represented discourse" rather than "free indirect discourse" which was actually based on the study of Doležel.…”

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Transition and Translation of Free Indirect Discourse in Chinese Literature

Liu

2021

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Free indirect discourse (FID) is a discourse presentation pattern of third-person narration, and it is often employed as a common narrative strategy to present characters’ consciousness in literary works. Given its ambiguous link with both the narrator’s and character’s discourse, we may feel confused about how to distinguish FID from other discourse when reading a text. After introducing the basic definition of this notion, this paper will interpret several signals which can help to distinguish FID passages in the text. Most importantly, this paper will look at how FID passages in Western literary works were translated into Chinese in early works, and then explore the development of FID in early Chinese fiction, investigating the transition of FID in Chinese.

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Characterization in Sea of Woe

Cited by 2 publications

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Anatomy of the Superstitious Mind: Subjectivity and Interiority in Two Early Twentieth-Century Rebuttals to Liaozhai's Records of the Strange

Anatomy of the Superstitious Mind: Subjectivity and Interiority in Two Early Twentieth-Century Rebuttals to Liaozhai's Records of the Strange

Transition and Translation of Free Indirect Discourse in Chinese Literature

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