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On The Poetics Of Time In Lu Xun’s Novels

Posted on:2014-01-24Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z M HuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1265330398490330Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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The novel, as a narrative form, contains abundant poetics connotation. Time appears in the novels which usually has dual status. The writers use time to braid the plot of the novel and take time as a description of the content and the object of contemplation. Time-poetics of the novels expresses the correlative of literature and time, aims to reveal the essential characteristics of the literary works of the time and the deep poetics-structure of the text, which discusses the implications of the essential characteristics and its intrinsic time of literature, and interpret connection of literature and time.The text is to describe the time dimension, space-time-type structure and the life-time implications of Lu Xun’s novels, and constructs the poetics of time in Lu Xun’s Novels. The text deliberate Lu Xun’s novels’ time-narrative-mechanisms and forms of changes, which reveals how novel’s time poetics shapings the different kind of imagination of literary world, as well as how to reflect the subjectivity of the creators imagination and aesthetic ideology. Despite the emphasis is different, but the interaction between the different sides complete the expression of Lu Xun’s time-poetics.It is the starting point to analysis the time dimension of Lu Xun’s novels’ time-poetics. Lu Xun’s time dimension can be divided into growth-time, samsara-time and non-time. The growth time reflects the body, mental and spiritual grow experience of characters in a certain time and space. Lu Xun’s novels represent the growth of individual life experience, and reveal the character’s development and changes,which show the complexity of the inner world and painful emotional experience of the character development process. Samsara time consciousness is the most imaginative and dynamic form in his novels. It is through the individual thing, person, or a single event or scene to interpret the samsara time. Non-time as a sort of eternal time, there is no obvious scale and logos, just a simple descriptor. Lu Xun’s novels congest myth-time, psychological time and dream-time, which try to grasp the value and meaning of life eternal.It is acting point to analysis the structure of space-time type of Lu Xun’s novels’ time-poetics. In the field of literature, narrating work action must occur in a certain time and space. Lu Xun’s novels have special form and content which change with time and space. It embodied in the construct of the time-space form and complex time-space structure and time-space montage of the novels. His text became multi-polar and multi-variant of time-space and the point reflecting on the life, and fully demonstrated his unique understanding of time-space.It is foothold to analysis the implications of the life-time of Lu Xun’s novels’ time-poetics. Time is nothing more than that the person’s life, and intrinsic in human life. Lu Xun devoted most of his time to the problem of human life. He stood on the point of view of the ultimate concern of the meaning of life to explore life, a survival situation, the value and meaning of life, the pursuit of life and etc. The time has never been a simple linear process of development in Lu Xun’s novels, but a poetic existence. We focus on Lu Xun’s novels’ life philosophy and aesthetic implications.
Keywords/Search Tags:Lu Xun, novels, time poetics, time dimension, spatial and temporal structure, life-timeimplications
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