Thesis information 'Fantasy elements in the short story collection "Love language" by Nguyen Tuan' by HVCH Nguyen Thi Thanh Chung, majoring in Literary Theory.1. Full name of student: Nguyen Thi Thanh Chung 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of birth: September 16, 1988 4. Place of birth: Dong Tao-Khoai Chau-Hung Yen 5. Decision to recognize student No.: 1883/2010 October 21, 2010 by the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 6. Changes in the training process: None 7. Thesis topic: The magical element in the short story collection "Love language" by Nguyen Tuan 8. Major: Literary theory; Code: 60220120 9. Scientific advisor: Associate Professor, Dr. Ton Thao Mien. Working agency: Institute of Literature 10. Summary of the results of the thesis: *Choosing the topic of the magical element in the short story collection "Love language" by Nguyen Tuan, the author wants to clarify the unique artistic world in Nguyen Tuan's literature, and at the same time contribute to a more complete understanding of the author's creative career, which is evaluated in the essay form along with the pinnacle of the short story collection "Echoes of the Past". At the same time, studying the magical element in the short story collection "Love language" is also to clarify the values, experiences and traditions of the magical story genre applied in contemporary literature, thereby understanding more and correctly evaluating the direction of this genre. * The magical element is the thread connecting artistic space and time to create characters with different fates and extraordinary personalities. As a writer who always longs for and seeks new feelings and lives in a stifling feudal colonial society, Nguyen Tuan has to go to another world - the world of Love Words to express his secret thoughts and ultimately write about the virtual world to talk about the real world - about human life. There, we still encounter living scenes, traditional beauty of our ancestors with unique cultural features of Vietnam: the tradition of studiousness, the character of a talented Confucian scholar... Creating the magical world in Love Words must include unique artistic space and time. It can be the familiar space of a paper-making village by West Lake, the scene of an examination school, an old Thang Long gate... It is also here that we encounter familiar scenes of the Vietnamese countryside, the Vietnamese soul. What is more special, those familiar scenes are reflected through magical elements to bring a more "supernatural" color. Artistic time is also built by artistic techniques to become illusory, eternal and that is also the time filled with moods. Besides the fate of people with different and extraordinary personalities, there is also the world of ghost characters - acting as a bridge between the two worlds of yin and yang and it is also the shadow reflecting the life and fate of people. With the characteristic of romantic writing style is to push things and phenomena to unusual and different places, in Love Language we also encounter strange scenes and objects. That is the product of rich imagination, creating the appeal of Love Language. With the writing style of exaggerating description along with the technique of strange language, each story in Love Language is full of meaning and carries symbolic and symbolic elements. Like all works, the artistic language in the work is rich in visual value, creating scenes, full of ancient Sino-Vietnamese words... But the most obvious characteristic in the work is the magical element that adds polysemy to the work. Writing about the fantasy world, the ghost world, the fairy world, Nguyen Tuan does not cause confusion for the reader. The writer conveys in it philosophies of life, suggestions for thinking about human destiny, compassion and humanity, about the grateful lifestyle of the Vietnamese people. The origin of Love Words is those humane values, which is what makes the value of this collection of short stories last forever. *In contemporary literature, the fantasy genre is developing. It creates novelty and appeal for novels that have received public attention: The Burning Pyre (Vo Thi Hao), Angel (Pham Thi Hoai), The Legend of a Beautiful Day (Hoa Vang)... Supporting this literary genre are the initial steps from Love Words by Nguyen Tuan. In this aspect, the values of content and art that Love Words brings still blend into today's fantasy literature to create new values.
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name : Nguyen Thi Thanh Chung 2. Sex: Female 3. Date of birth: September 16, 1988 4. Place of birth: Dong Tao- Khoai Chau-Hung Yen 5. Admission decision number: 1883/2010 Dated October 21, 2010 6. Changes in academic process: (List the forms of change and corresponding times) 7. Official thesis title: Mysterious (extraordinary) issue in a collection of short stories “Love is delicious” by Nguyen Tuan 8. Major: Literary theory 9. Code: 60220120 10. Supervisors: Associate Prof. Dr. Ton Thao Mien 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: By choosing the theme “mysterious (extraordinary) issue in a collection of short stories “Love delicious” by Nguyen Tuan”, I would like to highlight the unique style of art in Nguyen Tuan's literature and contribute to fully recognize his career which is highly evaluated with remarkable achievements of his short story collection “Vang bong mot mot”. Also, I wish to clarify the values and experiences of mysterious stories which are used in contemporary literature. Mysterious factor is the thing that connects the art space and time to create a character with extraordinary fate and personality. Although Nguyen Tuan is a writer who always seeks new feelings, he lives in an old feudal society. Therefore, he has to find and come to another world – the world of “Delicious Love” to express his secret personal thoughts as well as the real world of human life. And we still find the beautiful life with the cultural characteristics of Vietnam: the tradition of hospitality and great personality reinforced by Confucian. Unique space and time art plays an important role in creating the virtual world in “Lovely” for example a familiar paper village by West Lake, the scene examination in old time and the Thang Long ancient gate. These places help the readers find the familiar views of the Vietnamese village and Vietnamese soul. More particularly, these scenes are reflected through mysterious elements to be more attractive. The time in the collection is also unreal, eternal and full of feelings. Besides the fates of the extraordinary personalities, we also find the world of ghost characters - acting as a bridge between the world of yin and yang and it is also the reflection of human life and destiny. With the romantic writing style and his wonderful imagination, Nguyen Tuan gives the readers the extraordinary scenes and people. The exaggerating writing style of the author makes each story in “Love Delicious” full of meanings and symbolic values. Like other works of the author, the language is full of visual value and old Chinese Vietnamese words. But the most obvious characteristic of the work is mysterious elements to create more versatile means for works. Writing about the unreal world of ghosts, Nguyen Tuan doesn't make the reader confused and scared but sends them the philosophy of human life and meaningful thoughts about human fate, compassion and kindness of Vietnamese people. The origin of “Delicious Love” is these human values which makes this collection of short stories invaluable all the time. This kind of genre is very popular in contemporary literature and has obvious attraction to readers for examples Gian Thieu by Vo Thi Hao, Thien su by Pham Thi Hoai, Story of a beautiful day by Hoa Vang which are influenced by the initial steps – Love by Nguyen Tuan. It cannot be denied that the values of Love are still precious and modern to this genre of literature today.
