A Research on the Marriage-Romance Novelsin Tang Dynasty
| Autor: | Hsiu-Mei Lu, 呂秀梅 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 94 Marriage-romance novels in Tang Dynasty reveal a real look at the marriage and romance life of Tang people, which reflects the marriage and romance condition at that time. They present practical images, but some works involves the authors’ imagination of ideal marriage and romance. This research, through a gaze at the human and nonhuman novels in Tang Dynasty, is to explore (1) the concept of marriage of Tang people, (2) the real marriage condition of Tang people, and (3) how the authors compensated and satisfied themselves in marriage and romance novels when confronting obstacles in their marriage life. It is revealed in this research that the marriage and romance in Tang Dynasty, under the restraint of traditional ethical and marital codes, is generally centered around the family. Freedom on marriage and romance is restricted; that of women is even more suppressed and confined. Yet with the liberalization of Tang society, the freedom of divorce, re-marriage, and chastity broadens the space of the marriage and romance. However, due to the social pursuit for family status and the restraints on equal standing of a married couple, there is no lift of marriage and romance freedom for low-social-ranked women. In reality, marriage and romance novels convey the authors’ criticism on practical marriage and romance situation and their metaphors on their inner desire for ideal marriage. This kind of novel clearly reveals the emotional confinement under a feudal society. Marriage and romance novels of Tang Dynasty are filled with the authors’ imagination. The desire which they cannot fulfill in real life is carried out through their association with nonhuman females. Novels of this kind, on the other hand, exhibit the male’s fear and unease to nonhumans. Desire and fear, thus, bring them into a stalemate. It also presents the two facets of romance and reality. To sum up, marriage and romance novels of Tang Dynasty explore part of the marriage and romance life of Tang people on the one hand, and it examines the authors’ motives for their creation and their pursuit for the ideal appearance of marriage life on the other. |
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