狂欢与颠覆——对《第十二夜》和《皆大欢喜》的后现代主义解读.pdfVIP

Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge my supervisor Dr. Wang, who has provided me with the support and advice I needed during the research and composition of my thesis. Thank you for sharing many of your resources with me, and offering a plethora of indispensable suggestions on how to refine and polish my work. I would also like to acknowledge the continual support of Dr. Zhang Jing and associate Professor Jiang Li, both of whom helped me pursue my degree in the Masters Program and my future further research program. I truly appreciate the time you both took to assist me in achieving my goals. Finally, I would like to thank my friends and fellow graduate students: which are my classmates Liu Ting, Yang Meng and Xing Haixia, together with my roommate Li Jinhong. They shared with me their experiences of writing a thesis, and offered me guidance throughout the writing process. iv ABSTRACT As a giant of literature, Shakespeare enjoys a prestige of everlasting glamour, along with his infinitely brilliant works. Voluminous works on Shakespearean Criticism have been conducted for centuries. Focusing on his romantic works As You Like It and Twelfth Night , this thesis will probe into the carnival features against the official dogma through the lenses of postmodernist approach, with the explication that Shakespeare well deconstructs and subverts the long established social conventions, pointing out that the depiction of the carnival world is merely a method other than a purpose. Adopting the description of various aspects of life in the ca