8 Result(s)
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Yonglin Huang
Chinese
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Introduction
According to Western contemporary narratology, the literary form of Western fiction took shape in the 18th century, which is marked by the emergence of “novels”; while in terms of stylistics, “fiction” in the ...
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Folktales and the Evolution of Fiction
In prose narrative literature, story is the most ancient form of art. All nations and all cultures possess their own stories or tales that have been passed down from generation to generation. Anyone, from the ...
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Court Case Fiction and Detective Fiction
One of the fundamental themes of the world’s literature is crime and punishment. The Chinese traditional “court case fiction” (gong’an fiction) and detective fiction originating from the West largely bear such...
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories
Science fiction (or Sci-fi) as a genre of literature gives depictions of vistas of sci-tech progress and human’s understanding and speculation about the mystery of nature by means of vivid storylines and fascinat...
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Popular Literature, Elite Literature and Folk Literature
Literature used to be classified into “refined literature” and “popular literature.” Today this earlier classification of literature has evolved into that of “elite literature”, “popular literature” and “folk ...
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Narrative Modes of Popular Fiction
What is narrative? A narrative is a narrator’s account of a sequence of events, presented in a certain language, following a certain narrative structure. “Modes,” according to John G. Cawelti, “are ways in whi...
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Martial Arts Fiction and Chivalric Literature
Martial arts spirit is a common presence in both the Eastern and Western cultures. But the Chinese expression 武侠小说 (wuxia xiaoshuo, i.e. martial arts fiction) is probably unique to Chinese literature, because ...
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Romantic Fiction and Erotic Fiction
The question of man and woman has long remained the most sensitive and most fascinating topic for human beings since ancient times. Either in the West or in the East, romance about man and woman remains the co...
