The theme of death and the coward image of the protagonist in The Snows of Kilimanjaro are highlighted in the respects of discourse semantics,narrative order and narrative voice.Appraisal is the most essential discour...The theme of death and the coward image of the protagonist in The Snows of Kilimanjaro are highlighted in the respects of discourse semantics,narrative order and narrative voice.Appraisal is the most essential discourse semantics in the short story,which presents the protagonist's attitude and feeling of death.Flashback makes the image of the protagonist complete and vivid and shows the protagonist's evaluation to his life.The mix of extradiegetic-heterodiegetic voice and intradiegetic-homodiegetic voice strengthens the emotion and presents the feeling of death.展开更多
This paper is going to explore Roland Barthes,Michel Foucault and Wolfgang Iser’s theories upon the question,death of the author,from three aspects comparatively:What is the connotation of the author in their underst...This paper is going to explore Roland Barthes,Michel Foucault and Wolfgang Iser’s theories upon the question,death of the author,from three aspects comparatively:What is the connotation of the author in their understandings respectively?Why is death of the author necessary in modern or postmodern period?What will take the author’s position after its death?Through detailed analysis and comparison of their texts and propositions,this paper attempts to indicate that Barthes advocates that textual meaning is within text itself,dispels author’s conclusiveness on meaning of a text,and suggests the openness and multiplicity of textual meaning.By reexamining the writing subject and redefining the function of author,Foucault indicates that the concept“author”is a function of discourse.He degrades author’s crucial significance in the process of textual interpretation,but keeps author as an existential mode of discourse.Wolfgang Iser states that the meaning of a text generates from the reading process,a dialogue between the text and its reader.Once a literary text is finished,it remains quite and full of potentialities,waiting for reader to unfold itself,waiting to realize itself in reading process.展开更多
文摘The theme of death and the coward image of the protagonist in The Snows of Kilimanjaro are highlighted in the respects of discourse semantics,narrative order and narrative voice.Appraisal is the most essential discourse semantics in the short story,which presents the protagonist's attitude and feeling of death.Flashback makes the image of the protagonist complete and vivid and shows the protagonist's evaluation to his life.The mix of extradiegetic-heterodiegetic voice and intradiegetic-homodiegetic voice strengthens the emotion and presents the feeling of death.
文摘This paper is going to explore Roland Barthes,Michel Foucault and Wolfgang Iser’s theories upon the question,death of the author,from three aspects comparatively:What is the connotation of the author in their understandings respectively?Why is death of the author necessary in modern or postmodern period?What will take the author’s position after its death?Through detailed analysis and comparison of their texts and propositions,this paper attempts to indicate that Barthes advocates that textual meaning is within text itself,dispels author’s conclusiveness on meaning of a text,and suggests the openness and multiplicity of textual meaning.By reexamining the writing subject and redefining the function of author,Foucault indicates that the concept“author”is a function of discourse.He degrades author’s crucial significance in the process of textual interpretation,but keeps author as an existential mode of discourse.Wolfgang Iser states that the meaning of a text generates from the reading process,a dialogue between the text and its reader.Once a literary text is finished,it remains quite and full of potentialities,waiting for reader to unfold itself,waiting to realize itself in reading process.
