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SHS Web Conf.
Volume 199, 2024
2024 International Conference on Language Research and Communication (ICLRC 2024)
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Article Number | 04011 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Literature and Culture | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202419904011 | |
Published online | 23 October 2024 |
On the unique creation of “text dramatization” in Sandalwood Death
School of Humanities, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510000, China
* Corresponding author: rwxyrc@gzhu.edu.cn
As the first representative work of Mo Yan's transition period, Sandalwood Death tells the legendary story of Gaomi County's resistance to the German powers with a brushstroke that combines folk customs with magical realism. The work intentionally combines drama art with literary writing, using “cat tune” as an important clue and arranging the plot according to the script to create a dramatic novel with great national art and singing characteristics. This article aims to study how Sandalwood Death achieves the purpose of “dramatization of text” in character creation and plot arrangement. This paper introduces the concept of drama-novel for research. Based on the character creation method in the works and the concept of facial narrative, it finds that the main characters are built as “performers” in the drama, creating unique facial characters. The paper also found that the plot and chapter arrangement of Sandalwood Death combined the unique role of the pre-chapter singing segment and “cat tune” in the work, integrating the dramatic singing segment into the text narrative to achieve a dramatic effect. This paper combines the “performer, stage” relationship essential to “dramatization of text” to analyze the characterization and pre-chapter singing of “Red Sorghum Death” respectively.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2024
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