And intensive reading has now become a basic skill including various text analysis. New criticism is very useful for the analysis of poems, short stories and other texts, but I don't know where to start with novels. Only by combining the analysis of narratology can it be easy to get to the point.
Detailed steps of text analysis method:
The analytical methods of "narratology" mainly include story analysis (including story order analysis, story type analysis, etc. ) and narrative perspective analysis (including the narrator's person, position and credibility; The narrator's voice, narrative speed, etc. Specifically, it includes four aspects:
First, narrative narratology. Andrew H. Plaks said in China Narratology: "Narration means that the author conveys the essence and significance of life experience to others by telling stories." At the same time, it defines what "narrative text" is-"it is a literary style or type that can convey life experience in time flow with a large unit capacity". Dong Xiaoying described in Narratology: "Narratology is the study of how to make stories fascinating and beautiful." "Narratology is a discipline that studies narrative methods through narrative forms."
Second, the narrative subject-voice. Who said, that is, "who is the narrator" is very important in the narrative effect and the expression of text meaning, including "narrative angle" (narrator, interviewee, person, perspective,) and "narrative attitude" (narrator's voice, narrator's intervention and focus).
Third, the narrative mode-language style. The relationship between events and discourse is to discuss when narrative unfolds. This includes "narrative amplitude" (time amplitude and space amplitude) and "narrative frequency" (event frequency and narrative frequency).
Fourth, the description process-the structure of the article (narrative clues, plot arrangement, discourse order) and the stylistic structure (stylistic infiltration).