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The Dream of Red Chamber is a well-known masterpiece in literature. Concerning such a great “encyclopedia” like this, the researches toward it were in great variety with numerous divergent perspectives. In the thesis, the research would mainly focus on the “Affection in the Dream of Red Chamber. “
The Dream of Red Chamber still continuously shows its great influence toward Taiwanese contemporary literature. In several texts of Chiung Yao, the master in the field of novel of romantic love, the literary images of The Dream of Red Chamber appeared in different aspects, giving readers surprises with similarities of traits from the ancient time to the present.
This thesis would research the Intertextuality between the text from Chiung Yao and The Dream of Red Chamber, hoping to interpret a new perspective in the intertextuality and rewriting of this masterpiece.
The thesis consists of five chapters. The chapter one: Introduction contains the motivation of this research, retrospect of the bibliographies, the version of the text involved in and the range of this thesis covered.
The Chapter two: Intertextuality of the Rhetoric Literature mainly try to proof the intertextuality between the literature creations and the Rhetoric theory.
The Chapter Three: Intertextually of traditional romantic literature focused interprets the affection relationship between The Dream of Red Chamber and the Chiung Yao’s creation, which was the “encyclopedia” in the romantic literature.
The Chapter Four: Intertextually of the text itself discuss that any one discursive act is a “Therapeutic Process”, which aims on looking for rebirth through the self-reflection of the unease past time. This thesis tries to proof that Chiung Yao share the same intention with the writer of The Dream of The Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin (1715-1764) through the creation.
The Chapter Five: Review would start from the review of the elegance and vulgar of the texts. Hence, reviewing literary status of Chiung Yao’s texts. The author of this study suggests that Chiung Yao’s texts possess the traditional romantics with fluent writing style, which should be re-recognized and known by the academics and the literary world.
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