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Between Appetency And Aestheticism

Posted on:2007-01-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y AiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360185478747Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Since 1980s, Taiwan feminism literature, as a new and sudden rising force, has been presenting a splendid sight. Therein, discussion about female appetency and the relations among female appetency, politics, history and culture become the focus for female writing. Accordingly, research on appetency writing in female novels gradually become warming, but dissertation only restricted in the field of some certain writer or text. Whereas what has discussed above, this paper taking Taiwan literature since 1980s as study field, selecting appetency writing of female novels as the beginning, wholly explains deeper consideration in concept, value tropism and esthetics construction from three angles of appetency seeking, appetency analyzing and appetency slopping over.The first unit mainly discusses historical evolution, social context, psychological cause and cultural passing down. On the basis of summarizing Taiwan female literature rising quickly from multi-culture since 1980s, this paper expatiates in detail on that the awareness of female consciousness is the key factor for female literature blossom, the precondition for female appetency to appear above historical surface and even the footstone of female construction . Vicissitude track of Taiwan female appetency writing shows that female construction trend from"private image"to"public image"and then to"removing gender". Appetency writing of Taiwan female writers has been the symbol to consider, explain and analyze various topics of social politics, economics, history, culture, morality, ethic and etc. of Taiwan. At the same time it analyzes man's authoritative talk and constructs female's talk system.Basing on the primary bourgeon of female consciousness and female appetency; taking subjective attention to"private image"bourn like their bodies, appetency as base point; the second unit makes use of three aspects like the contradiction between body as tool and body"anti-tool"in female existence, dilemma and rebel in female bodies appetency, body philosophy of female finery counterchange; this unit explains philosophical meaning and ideological content in body's subjective concept while female pursues appetency consciously; furthermore to unveil cultural subversion of female body and appetency. At the same time, this unit points it out from taste that the female appetency writing constructed on the base of female body esthetics supply an important way for female to regress herself and to seek life essence; however, the fact that too restricted to describe body from physiological angle, unconsciously constructing a space to look into female appetency writing, makes female writing to be the object for male appetency consume.The third unit emphasizes particularly on female's"public image"in public conversations of politics and history; it analyses how the female appetency overturns and then analyzes political and historical allegorical speech under men's authoritative talk, and...
Keywords/Search Tags:Taiwan female novel, female appetency, aestheticism body, gender politics, homoerotic writing
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