Functional Metaphors of Life and Death Maternal Subjects in Western Literatures——Also on Original Ecotype of Wine-God Rite and Oriental Value

Abstract

Abstract: There exist common occurrence of ritual narration in modern western literature in particular putting the conflicts between living form and characters under different “threshold ” so as to enforce the inside information and traditional value.Such process and result in greater degree benefit the reference from and integration of anthropology and literature.This paper,taking the ritual narration as a clue,from the angle of literal anthropology,probes a new way and a new view for the interpretation of western classics.

Key words: ecotype, maternal subjects, ritual narration, literary anthropology

PENG Zhao-Rong. Functional Metaphors of Life and Death Maternal Subjects in Western Literatures——Also on Original Ecotype of Wine-God Rite and Oriental Value[J]. Journal of Jishou University（Social Sciences）, 2004, 25(3): 41-47.

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