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Interpreting Life in the Aesthetic Perspective of Reception

Fei XuJiaying University, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

Life is one of the most renowned works of Lu Yao, and it is a landmark novel in his creative history. The novel revolves around the tragedy of Gao Jialin’s personal struggle, whose growth trajectory and struggle are different from those of his contemporaries in other novels, and which can lead to different reading experiences when readers read this work. This paper aims to analyze the “implied reader” and “summoning structure” set up in Life from the reader's perspective, based on the theory of reception aesthetics, as well as the satisfaction and renewal of the reader's "vision of expectation" by this setting.

Keywords: literary theory; reception aesthetics; Lu Yao; Life; Gao Jialin
Published: May 17, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/3/20220600
Volume: CHR Vol.3
pp. 742-747
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