The Horror Writing of Strange Tales from Liaozhai
Abstract
Strange Tales from Liaozhai is a representative work of the Zhiguai Chuanqi of Chinese classical literature, and the writing of horror stories is one of its most essential parts, which contains adequate meaning, showing its rich details and vivid writing characteristics, which also reflects a certain extent of the author, Pu Songling's unique aesthetic and value orientation. This paper analyzes the setting of the time and space environment of the original text, the use of the third-person limited angle of view in the narrative, and the selection of horror images, respectively, from the scene of the incident, the subject of experience and the object of experience in the horror story. This paper analyzes the original texts of Strange Tales from Liaozhai by summarizing writing techniques of horror stories in work to explore the process of creating the sense of horror in Strange Tales from Liaozhai and how the author uses the original source of human fear to create a horror story. It reveals the alienation and abnormality of time and space, the immersive sense of subjective, limited perspective, and the deadly threat behind horrific imagery. While appreciating the artistic beauty and realizing the diversity of stories types of this work, its implicit humanistic concern is not ignored.
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