2000•Unpublished venueRequires access
Seeking the features of the characters in historical romances from aesthetic and cultural angles
Ji De
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Abstract
The idealization of the characters results from the author's influence by the outlook of heroism and the moral concept of history under which the characters used to be regarded as carrier of the ideas of social politics and personality,the examples set to be followed as well.The type of the characters is not only the immediate result of its idealization,but also related to many other factors, among which are its focus on plots, its characterization from the angles of events, the fixed roles played by the characters, the modeling principles handed down from the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the catering to the reader's expectation to heroes and the like.