一部典型的成长小说——《远大前程》的体裁分析.docx

1、A Typical Initiation Story Genre Analysis of Great Expectations一部典型的成长小说远大前程的体裁分析摘要关于个人成长和教育的传统文学体裁被称为成长小说，该小说体裁起源于 18 世纪德国， 并流行于欧美各国。许多文学大师创作了许多不朽之作。其中英国十九世纪著名作家查尔斯狄更斯的远大前程就是一部成长小说的经典之作。关于狄更斯的小说远大前程的研究可谓汗牛充栋，也不乏有从成长小说角度进行研究的文献，但其中缺少从小说主要元素的角度进行系统研究的文章。本文将依据文学原理中的小说三大主要元素，即主题、人物和情节对远大前程进行详细分析，论证作品符合

2、成长小说的定义及其特点，是典型的成长小说。 本论文由四部分组成，第一部分是引言，主要介绍作者查尔斯狄更斯及其作品远大前程；第二部分主要介绍成长小说理论、小说的三大要素：主题、人物和情节；第三部分从小说的主题、人物和情节等三要素分析远大前程中的主题类型、人物设定和情节模式，阐述小说的成长小说属性，论证远大前程是一部典型的成长小说。第四部分是结论，总结论文探讨的主旨。关键词：远大前程；成长小说；体裁分析；文学元素安阳师范学院人文管理学院本科毕业论文AbstractThe initiation story（also known as Bildungsroman）is a novel of perso

3、nal development or of education. It originated from Germany in the latter half of the 18th century and has since become one of the major narrative genres in European and Anglo-American literature. Some classics ofthis type published across the global, one of them is Charles Dickens Great Expectation

4、s. Dickens novel Great Expectationspresents the growth and development of Pip, the protagonist of the novel.Many researches on Great Expectations as an initiation story have been done. But no researches have included all the three main elements of theme, character and plot in the novel.With the thre

5、e elements from the Elements of Literature by Zhang Jian, this paper is to have a genre analysis of Dickens Great Expectations from three aspects-the initiation theme, the character design and the plot pattern, thus proving that Great Expectationsis a typical Initiation story.This paper consists of

6、four parts. The first part is about an introduction to Charles Dickens and his novel Great Expectations, researches done and the research needed to be done. The second part is an introduction to the initiation story, its definition, its origin, its development and its characteristics. The third part

7、 is an analysis of Great Expectationsas a typical initiation story which involves the initiation theme, the character design, and the plot pattern. The last part concludes with a reiteration of the main points discussed in this paper.Key Words: Great Expectations; Initiation story; genre analysis; l

8、iterary elementsIIContents摘要IAbstractII1. Introduction11.1 Charles Dickens and His Works11.2 Introduction ofGreat Expectations11.3 The Current Research of Great Expectationsand the Significance of thisPaper22. The Initiation Story-a Specific Literature Genre32.1 Its Definition32.2 Its Origin and Dev

9、elopment32.3 The Characteristics of the Initiation Story43. The Analysis of Great Expectationsas a Typical Initiation Story53.1 The Initiation Theme in Great Expectations53.1.1 The Initiation in the Protagonists Life Changes53.1.2 The Initiation in the Protagonists Characteristic Changes73.2 The Cha

10、racter Design83.2.1 The Main Character Design93.2.2 The Minor Character Design103.3 The Plot Pattern113.3.1 The Similarity of Plots in Pips Boyhood113.3.2 The Turning Point of the Initiation113.3.3 The Maturation and Self-discovery of the Protagonists124. Conclusion12Bibliography13Acknowledgments131

11、. IntroductionThe initiation story is a traditional literary genre describing a heros growth and development. There are a number of classical novels belonging to this genre. Great Expectations is one of the typical Initiation stories written by Charles Dickens who is regarded as the greatest British

12、 novelist of Victorian period. This part would give an overview of Charles Dickens, and an introduction to the novel Great Expectations, current research and the significance of this thesis.1.1 Charles Dickens and His WorksCharles Dickens, whose full name is Charles John Huffam Dickens, was born in

13、7 February 1812 and died in 9 June 1870. He is one of the great British writer and social critic in the 19th century. During his life, he enjoyed unprecedented fame for his works, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged both by the critics and scholars.Dickens had w

14、ritten various novels, including the picaresque novelThe Pickwick Papers; the historical novel A Tale of Two Cities; these three novels: Bleak House, Hard Times and Little Dorrit which reflect social and political problems; three classical Initiation storiesOliver Twist, David Copperfield and Great

15、Expectations; and other famous novels and novellas, such as Dombey and Son, The Old Curiosity Shop, and A Christmas Carol. Among them, David Copperfieldis regarded as Dickens autobiography. His fictions, with vivid descriptions of life in 19th-century England, have inaccurately and anachronistically come to symbolize on a global level Victorian society (1837 1901) as uniformly Dickensian, when in fact, his novels time scope spanned from the 1770s to the 1860s. His creative genius has been praised by a lot of writersfrom Leo Tolstoy to G. K. Chesterton and George Orwellfor its realism,