The writer believes that the deep motivation from Woolf’s modern experimental fictions resides in the revelation of the inner truth as a human being and the probe into the meaning of life, which endows her fictions with a peculiar“inter-interpretable”relationship between the construction of her narrative art and her humanistic concepts.
Narrative arts of Chinese classical fiction put emphasis on direct description,indirect description,detail description and the use of im age operation in trctics, and create images and characters in different narrative layers.
This thesis analyzes the narrative arts of Defoe's novels from the discourse (expressive form of the narrative text) and the story (content form of the narrative text) by the basic theory of narratology together with the methods of traditional novel criticism, social historical criticism and literary history research, which is grounded on Daniel Defoe's three important novels Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders and Roxana.
As a narrative art, the novel on the one hand tries to eliminate the effect of historical facts on the novel itself and, on the other hand, consolidates the gist of the novel based on the images and narrative techniques over establishing historical consciousness.
The article expounds the traits of narrative techniques as to the following two aspects: One exclusive pursuit of the realistic style theme and the other, the reflection of structural patterns of narrative techniques.
Chapter Five is to discuss Conrad’s narrative art,making a case study of Lord Jim. The thesis intends to deal with Conrad’s diverse and original narrative techniques such as multiple points of view, unique narrative structure, narrative voices, narrative distance and impressionism shown in the novel.
An author has freedom to create and shape characters and events, and the law that is touched upon in such narratives is subject to the needs of narrative art.
The poet, in his insistent interest in the vocabulary of insanity, may rather wish to explore an interior world that is unstable and cut off from normal social convention, but which is nevertheless instructive in the sheer power of his narrative art.
In cases where narratives are not firmly underpinned by factuality and due process a series of narrative techniques and processes can be brought into play to enhance the persuasiveness and credibility of those narratives.