From Opposition to Unity: An Analysis of Artistic Technique in The Centaur

Qingzheng LIU

Abstract


The Centaur applies unique artistic expression technique with complex and changeable perspectives, different styles in different chapters. The novel intertwined the myth and the reality, the God and the people, achieving the perfect unity of theme and expression form, so revealing that the modern American is full of contradictions in a complex survival dilemma.


Keywords


Narrative structure; Myth; Reality; Unity of opposites

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/7951

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