What are the basic characteristics of a literary image?

Noble, allegorical language.

1 The unity of objectivity and the closed-mindedness of the main sparrow, The objectivity of the literary image of the year's ode is manifested in the objectivity of the content of the image.

2 The unity of truth and assumption, the contradiction between truth and assumption, is more complex in the image of the split literature.

3. The unity of individuality and generality, the "first feeling" given to readers by a good literary image should be vivid and full of personality.

4 The unity of certainty and uncertainty.

Subjective and objective unity.

1. The unity of assumption and truth.

1. Individual and general unity.

1. The unity of certainty and uncertainty is the four characteristics of the literary image.

Literary images refer to the specific perceptual, artistically generalized, and aesthetic values of the natural and life pictures presented in the text, which embody the writer's aesthetic ideals.

Literary images have different types and can be divided into linguistic images, images, and imagery.

Linguistic imagery refers to a variety of language usages that are non-descriptive, but can evoke specific feelings and rich associations in readers.

The characteristic of the image is that the depiction of language can make people think of a certain object.

Imagery refers to an image created to express thoughts and feelings.

Extended information: Literary images refer to the specific and perceptual pictures presented in the text, which have artistic generalization, embody the writer's aesthetic ideals, and have aesthetic value.

However, this is only the general characteristics of literary images, and as for the different nature of literary images, they also have different specific characteristics, which can only be seen more clearly in conjunction with the discussion of their advanced forms. In short, the literary image is the spiritual structure of human knowledge, affection, and meaning, and has a certain corresponding relationship. This forms the overall systematization of the literary image.

The general form of this systematic and absolute literary image can be divided into three types: realistic image, lyrical image and ideographic image, among which the advanced form, that is, the form of artistic context, is composed of literary typical, literary artistic conception and symbolic image, which has become an independent and complementary three-legged structure of artistic image.

There are many characteristics of the literary image, and here are only the main ones.

1. The unity of objectivity and subjectivity.

The objectivity of a literary image is manifested in the objectivity of the content of the image, and don't we often hear or see people use the criterion of objectivity to judge the success or failure of a literary image?

However, after all, the literary image is the product of the subjective consciousness of the writer and poet, and there is a difference between the "objective image" and the "writer's mental image", "the image of the work" and "the reader's mental image", and even the essential difference: on the one hand, the "writer's mental image" is deformed to the "objective object", or even completely deformed; On the other hand, writers and poets have added emotional, ideological, symbolic and philosophical connotations to their literary images.

Wen Yiduo's "Dead Water" is a widely recited poem, about its writing origin, Wen Yiduo's friend Rao Mengkan explained: "The poem "Dead Water" is a poem made by Jun occasionally when he saw a stinky ditch at the south end of Xidan Erlongkeng. If Rao said that it is undoubted, then the image of "stalewater" in Wen Yiduo's heart should be produced at the moment when he touched the scene.

However, the "stagnant water" in the poem cannot be easily asserted as the stagnant water in Erlongkeng, or whether it is the staunge of Erlongkeng or not, it is no longer important. Some commentators have summarized the three symbolic meanings of "backwater": from the time of creation, it symbolizes the corrupt American society (when the poet has not yet returned to China), from the time of publication, it symbolizes Beiyang** (when the poet returned to China and was in Beijing), and from the time of publication of the poetry collection, it symbolizes the dark Chinese society (the poet's ideals were lost and he withdrew from the poetry circle).

Therefore, we say that the image of "backwater" is the product of the combination of objective content and subjective feelings.

2 The unity of truth and assumption.

The contradiction between truth and assumption is more complex in the literary image.

The authenticity of literary images is the same as the above-mentioned objectivity, which means that literary images should have a basis in reality and cannot be produced out of thin air. Truthfulness is a power to conquer readers; If this principle is violated, the literary image becomes "descriptive" or even hateful, and the reader will not recognize it.

However, the creation of literary images not only follows the truth and logic of reality, but also follows the truth and logic of art, and these two truths and logics are often different, or even very different. The so-called artistic truth is a higher reality than the real reality, and the so-called artistic logic is a subjective logic and aesthetic logic, and writers and poets living in the kingdom of literature can start from a certain hypothetical logic (such as "plants have wisdom and souls", "animals are as intelligent and capable as humans", "stones can speak", etc.), and boldly create unique and bizarre literary images. This kind of image concentrates on some fantasy, magic, and strange literary works.

For example, most of the characters in "Journey to the West" are fantasy, created by the author according to hypothetical logic. Please see the birth of the Monkey King for the first time:

On the top of that mountain, there is a fairy stone ......Since the opening of the cover, every innocently show, the day and the moon,

There are four points.

1) The literary image is the unity of subjectivity and objectivity; (2) the literary image is the unity of the hypothetical and the real wide stool; (3) the literary image is the unity of the individual and the general; (4) The literary image is the unity of certainty and uncertainty.

Literary images refer to the specific and perceptual pictures presented in the text, which are subtle and artistic generalization, embody the writer's aesthetic ideals, and have aesthetic value.