英文摘要
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Apart from affecting the development of literary form, the development of demon theme in the novels of Ming Dynasty can especially reflect the nature of social reality. By means of analyzing and discriminating the type of demon stories, the thesis has noticed the extraction of the concept of order in court-case novels and demonstrated the phenomenon of demonizing a specific group or species; the demon stories that succeeds from the mystery novels in late Ming Dynasty have affected the change of the demon's definition and nature and the change has reflected people's anxiety over body conception, political order, faith order and ethic order in late Ming Dynasty. The thesis has also presented the expansion and extension of the viewpoints on demon and clarified the sense of equivocality on variation of human bodies, mystery religion, local wicked sacrifice and imagination on human and demon, etc, aiming to obtain an accurate understanding about the orthodox and heterodox concepts of order in court-case novels.
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