A Study of the Town Narrative of the Southern Goods Shop Under the Urban-Rural Counterpoint

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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_22How to use a DOI?

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town narrative; The Southern Goods Shop; narrative perspective; southern dialect; Zhang Ji

Abstract

Set in the particular spatial subject of the ‘town’, The Southern Goods Store transforms the county town into an important link between the countryside and the city. This paper discusses three aspects of the unique town narrative of The Southern Goods Store: the novel’s perspective of the multitude, its depiction of the emptiness of the world and the sadness of life, and its use of the southern dialect. The novel presents an undifferentiated view of the world, portraying the emptiness of the world and the sadness of life. It uses the southern dialect to build up a descriptive tone of white descriptions and to develop a picture of life in the southern county under the counterpoint of the city and the countryside, making the town a complex literary space and a dense and complex field of discourse.

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AU  - Xinyi Jin
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/02/13
TI  - A Study of the Town Narrative of the Southern Goods Shop Under the Urban-Rural Counterpoint
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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