Imagination and Narrative: Fairy Tales, Epics, Fables
by Zhang Huimin
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Narrative is inseparable from imagination, but existing narrative theories mostly focus on research techniques and ignore the imaginative function of the essence of narrative. This study starts from fairy tales, epics, and fables, focuses on analyzing the pivotal role of imagination in narrative, and analyzes the two-way interaction between theory and practice. If the penetration of fairy tales into people's childhood is the alienation of narrative time (or the unreality of the present), then epics trace the narrative time back to ancient times, explore the origins of history, and explore the setting of narrative plots in the explicit and implicit dual mechanisms of the narrative process; while fables use the immortal throbbing of the soul to transform the future. Drawing on the similarities between fairy tale thinking and myth, we explore the "perceptual" picture of narrative images and the metaphorical language structure that constructs this image picture; we reveal the symbolic order and allegorical effect of the interaction, mismatch, and harmonic resonance between the conceptual world and the sensory world.
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