A Discussion On The Archetype Of Modern And Contemporary Chinese Novels

In theory, the signifier and the signified of the archetype have occurred three big changes in the west, namely the signified of the archetype is single and its signifier is very confused in the ancient theology and religion and Plato's philosophy. The signifier is unified; the signified is extended for three times in the psychoanalytic theory of Jung. Frye cited the archetype into the study field of the literature, and let the signifier and the signified take on the clear literature color. In the 1980s, the archetype theory is translated and introduced into China, it through three main development phases:the cognitive period of macro translation and introduction, the internalization period of temporary wane, the development period of criticism and innovation. It makes the western theory further Sinicize and provides the forceful theory for the study of the archetype of Chinese literature.In terms of the specific archetype of Chinese literature, the motif that the animal reward the kindness have go through the change from expressing the religions thought to criticizing the actuality, it paid particular emphasis on calling humanism in the novels of New Period and expressing the ecological crisis in the natural world and the spirit of human being in new century literature, those let the literature expression has clear critical function. The land is not only the material basis on which the conventional peasant relies for survival, but also the spirit home and the object seeking assiduously, this so cause other land consciousness of peasants, such as robbing land, hating to leave a place where one has lived long. After the 1980s, with the development of modern urban civilization the attitude of the peasant had changed, they are regard the land as the only origin of the means of subsistence no longer, on the contrary, they are regard the modern urban as the ideal place on where one lives, this cause the relation between peasant and land has detached from the previous close. The symbolic connotation of the moon image despite hasn't happened the big change from ancient times to the present, but its expresses has all got the striking feature of modern society, at the same time, the expresses aren't a isolated following point no long, but a description to the real world mixed and crossed each other. The regeneration motif focuses on the description to the realistic life and the spirit regeneration after changed from idealism to materialism, and brought the rich realistic color.In addition, the paper also strive to rise the compared outcome to a literature experience and summarize their expression commonality of the archetype after the generality study to the specific archetype by the compare between ancient and modern and the analysis to the modern express. This make the individual case reflect some general rules in development and expression of archetype and open a new path for the study of the literature archetype.