SYMBOLIC NOVEL`S TITLE "FOLDING BEIJING" AND " UTOPIA" AS EXAMPELS

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CAIRO UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF ARTS , CHINESE DEPARTMENT, GIZA ,EGYPT

Abstract

"Studies on titles of literary works" is still a field that few people pay attention to. It is very promising to cut into the study of every literature work from the titles of it. When studying the title of a literary work, we have to go through two points, the first is the literal or linguistic meaning of the title, and we use it to a large extent by searching in the specialized  dictionaries, and the second point is the implicit or hidden meanings that the title may contain. This article attempts to take Hao Jing fang’s Chinese science fiction novel "FOLDING BEIJING" and Ahmed Khalid Taufik’s Egyptian science fiction novel "Utopia" as examples to explore the artistic meaning of the titles of the two novels and reveal the significance of the novel titles conceptualization.

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