论故事新编小说中的主体介入 = A study on subjective interventions in 'old tales retold' fiction

Abstract

The debate on Lu Xuna??s Old Tales Retold began just after its inception and lasts until today. This dissertation attempts to analyze this issue from a new perspective: genre poetics. Under the theoretical framework of M. M. Bakhtina??s theory of carnivalization, I would like to re-read the fiction to attempt an alternate explanation, which not only sheds light on Lu Xuna??s text, but also explores other texts of sub-genre fiction both synchronically and diachronically. Through a selected study of cases (Lu Xun, Shi Zhecun, Liu Yichang, Li Bihua, Ye Si, Xi Xi and Tao Ran) from a very large amount of texts belonging to the same sub-genre, this dissertation aims to provide new insight in the three following aspects: 1. To generalize and argue the individualization of Old Tales Retold type fiction and discuss them from the perspective of subjective interventions; 2. To analyze the Bahktina??s complex theory of carnivalization; 3. To endeavor to find a possible yardstick to identify successful historical rewriting in this new sub-genre fiction.