An Interpretation of “Body” as Rhetoric in Yan Lianke’s Fiction Creation

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10.2991/iaw-sc.2013.232How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Yan Lianke’s Fiction; Rhetoric of Fiction; Body as Rhetoric

Abstract

With the help of Booth's Rhetoric of Fiction theory, we interpret the “body” in order to review the survival paradox in Yan Lianke's novels. In this perspective, “Body” on the one hand survives on the continuous supply of food, and on the other hand exists to supply to life the needed food, only to guarantee the survival and existence of human beings. Additionally, Yan Lianke, regarding “body” itself as one kind of “natural objects”, examines in a fantastic way the process of life reproduction and reviews in a fictional way the difficulty of life reproduction and the persistence and adamancies of human beings. As the result, Living-towards-death is the greatest secret of human survival in Yan Lianke's novels.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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