Research on the Arrangement of Chapters inside Categories of a New Account of the Tales of the World
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DOI: 10.25236/iwacle.2018.065
Author(s)
Ming Zhang, Xin Liu
Corresponding Author
Ming Zhang
Abstract
As for the arrangement of the biographical novel, A New Account of the Tales of the World, most researchers focus on the compilers, the compiling time and the internal logical relationship among the 36 categories. In fact, there are also some principles to follow in the arrangement of chapters within each category. The internal arrangement has four specific features: the overall arrangement of succession, the concept of “broken but continuous”, the principle of clustering arrangement and the stories unfold around main characters. The arrangement ideas are greatly influenced by historians’ concepts. Chapters in A New Account of the Tales of the World are seemingly loose and scattered, but with the help of these arrangement principles, we can find inner clues run over the whole book.
Keywords
A New Account of the Tales of the World, Arrangement