What are the basic characteristics of literary images?

The basic characteristics of literary image;

1 philosophy

This is the essential feature of the image of the ultimate state. Literary symbolic image, as a "expressive image", expresses "meaning" and is a philosophical concept, concept or philosophical thinking about things formed by people in practice.

2. Symbolism

This is the basic expression of literary symbolic images. Generally speaking, the philosophical nature of images is not directly expressed, but realized by symbols or hints of images.

The symbolic "image" is actually a carrier with some significance. For example, in Kafka's The Big Beetle, the image of the big beetle corresponds to the formation process and philosophical significance of "people become inhuman", which leads us to look at it in a broader and more universal sense, not limited to the image itself.

3. Absurdity

This is the image characteristics of literary symbolic images. The original meaning of absurdity refers to going against common sense and appearing ridiculous. There are various theories and styles of modernist literary creation, but most of them show irrational and anti-traditional characteristics through absurd deformation.

4. Solubility

This is the aesthetic feature of literary symbols. Because the purpose of symbolic image is to express truth and thoughts, the aesthetic process of symbolic image becomes a process of aesthetic appreciation.

Extended data:

When explaining the word "image", the British Dictionary of Modern Review Terms also lamented: "This is a confusing and flexible term. Any sensible effect caused by literary language, any touching language, metaphor and symbol can be called image.

When a concept is summed up as everything, it has no meaning. The concept of "image" needs to be sorted out and standardized theoretically. The concept of image, widely used in literature and art, psychology, linguistics and other disciplines, mainly has four meanings:

1, psychological images, that is, images in the psychological sense, are generally translated as "representations" in domestic psychological circles, which refer to various perceptual images formed on the basis of perception and presented in the mind. Psychological image is the basis of literary creation and valuable, but it is not a literary image, let alone a literary image.

2. Intrinsic image, that is, the advanced intentional design image conceived by human beings to achieve a certain purpose, is manifested as the internal image or inner image formed by artistic conception in literary creation.

3. Generalized image is the general name of all artistic images or linguistic images appearing in literary works, which is basically equivalent to the concept of "artistic image" or "literary image", referred to as "image".

4. Conceptual images and advanced aesthetic images refer to "ideographic images" created for the purpose of expressing philosophical concepts, with symbolism or absurdity as the basic characteristics, and under the guidance of some rational concepts and abstract thinking with solvability and polysemy, in order to achieve the ideal state of human aesthetics.

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