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The Comparison of Intertextualism between Eagle-shooting Heroes and Ashes of Time

  • JOURNAL OF CHINESE STUDIES
  • 2006, (19), pp.115-141
  • Publisher : CHINESE STUDIES INSTITUTE
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature

Myung-suk Kim 1

1위덕대학교

ABSTRACT

The main aim of this paper is to offer an comparison of the novel Eagle-shooting Heroes with the film Ashes of Time. This paper is roughly divided into four; the introduction(Chapter1), the deletion and transcendence of modernity(Chapter2), the oblivion and transcendence of chivalric world(Chapter3) and between reproduction and the reinterpretation(Chapter4). Wangjiawei inserts Huangyaoshi's narrative as Outangfeng relates reminiscence, reinterpretates Eagle-shooting Geroes with strong authorist's method, and write up the sorrow of knight-errants' disappointed love in the postmodern imaginary world. As Jinyong's Eagle-shooting Heroes was adapted for TV dramas and movies, it also became one of the cult objects and cultural phenomena. Through this paper, we could find how the modern subjects that Eagle-Shooting Heroes's characters pursued was adapted for the movies in the modernity's deletion and transcendence aspects. As Jinyong's former period novel's China vs foreign country's dual opposition structure transfer to the latter period novels' unitary Sinocentrism structure, Jinyong's writing motive became more apparent. And we could find the comparative aspects of the motive and social allegories that Eagle-Shooting Heroes was adaptated for Ashes of time. Eagle-shooting Heroes has strong absorption force that leads to the world of fiction and fantasy but has more of hotmedia elements than coolmedia elements. Eagle-shooting Heroes, the novel and video, therefore, set much value on genre itself, but Ashes of time is based on authorism. I regret, however, that the Hongkong's knight-errant novels' adaptation for dramas and movies don't reflect Hongkong's modernization through chivalric world as Eagle-shooting Heroes any more, but loses its sincerity in 1950's.

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