A Comparative Study On The Novels Of Women’s Growth In China And Korea Since The90’s

The Women Growth Novel is an important part of Korea-China literature in1990s, although the different social background, cultural tradition, literary trends led todistinct Women Growth Novel of two countries. If read thoroughly, since1990s, theWomen Growth Novel of both countries share similarities in the female gender situation,narrative purport, discourse strategies and contributions to aesthetics, etc. This thesistakes Korea and China Women Growth Novel of90’s as the analytic target, the theory ofparallel study in comparative literature as the basis, comparatively analyzing therepresentative works of Korea and china Women Growth Novel since1990s tocomprehend the awareness of growth and growth of writer’s experience, as well as itsinfluence on the narrative structure, to explore the similarities and differences of worksbetween Korea and China, and to further research the universality and particularity ofKorea-China works since1990s.The first chapter introduces the research background and the reasons for thisselected topic, combing the current research situation of Women Growth Novel in bothcountries, and forecast its development prospect. This thesis takes Korea and ChinaWomen Growth Novel as the analytic target, defining the concepts of Women Novel,Growth Novel and Women Growth Novel. This thesis employs the method of parallelstudy in comparative literature to thoroughly and deeply compare Korea-China WomenGrowth Novel.The second chapter mainly explores the common theory resources of Korea andChina Women Growth Novel, which is interpreted in the aspects of politicalposition, gender position and ethnic position. Korea and China Women Growth Noveloriginated and developed based on the influence of Western feminist theory, whichthoroughly subverts the patriarchal political order. Korea and China Women GrowthNovel starts from the female gender position, providing theoretical support for Korea andChina females to break the traditional feudal ethics, to look for female ego and toestablish the feminist theory and feminist literature which adapt to the development ofboth countries. The third chapter mainly analyzes the common ideological implication of Korea andChina Women Growth Novel. Korea-China Women Growth Novel is the writing of selfexperience and the fate from the ideology and content. Korea-China women arestrikingly similar to each other in the aspects of living circumstances, themes of growth,dimension of life owing to similar historical and cultural background. Korea-ChinaWomen Growth Novel mainly focuses on the common ideological implication of thestruggle and reflection in the process of female growth under the patriarchal power, theawakening of feminist consciousness on the problems of love， marriage and sex as Wellas self-identity of female ego in the three dimensions of physiology, spirit, psychology.The fourth chapter mainly discusses the narrative art in Korea and China WomenGrowth Novel. The narrative strategy in Korea China Women Growth Novel isdistinctive from male creation in the narrative art. Firstly, Korea China Women GrowthNovel makes use of a tragic self-redemption strategy, experiencing the loneliness of bodyand soul. Secondly, in the narrative strategy, Korea-China Women Growth Novel oftenadopts personalized way of writing to express personal experience, the dual structure ofthe narrative strategy, internal perspective and monologue discourse, showing arepresentation of daily-life narration. Lastly, in the narrative art, Korea China WomenGrowth Novel both displays the uniformity of female maturity, namely, taking the imageas a metaphor, including the space imagery, body imagery and disease imagery,showing unique aesthetic experience of Women Growth.The fifth chapter compares the national characteristics in Korea China WomenGrowth Novel. Korea-China Women Growth Novel due to different geography andraces, shows different national characteristics.Differences in attitude towards life-womendignity-growth pattern constitutes the basic differences between Korea China WomenGrowth Novel. In the attitude towards life, China women showed a deconstruction of thetraditional attitude towards life, while Korean women have shown a positive womenconstruction. In the female character, China women showed aloof, assertive personalityof modern women, while Korea women showed a tough introverted traditional femalecharacter. In the growth model, China women changed from daring to rebel to desire theultimate catharsis disoriented while Korean women suffering from the desire forindependence to temper ultimately self. Totally different attitude, character and growth models exhibited completely different aesthetic experience of Korea China WomenGrowth Novel.Chapter Six illustrates the external causes of differences of Korea and China WomenGrowth Novel. This chapter explains social causes of differences of Korea and ChinaWomen Growth Novel from three are including social circumstances, cultural attitudeand creation group. Development of bilateral political process of democratization andsocioeconomic factors was the social cause of the differences of Korea and ChinaWomen Growth Novel; different cultural background also made the huge difference ofthe Korea China women attitudes on marriage family and even sex; the imbalance of thedevelopment of creation group and female creation also became the external cause ofcauses of differences of Korea China Women Growth Novel.The Seventh chapter describes in depth the meaning and value of Women GrowthNovel comparison. This chapter attempts to describe the meaning and value ofcomparing Korea China Women Growth Novel from three different angles includingglobal culture, gender and history of literature. Firstly, from the global culture sights,Korea China Women Growth Novel has a common traditional cultural background andreceives Western Women enlightenment ideology. Thus, Korea China Women GrowthNovel comparison has common traditional cultural background. At the same time, KoreaChina Women Growth Novel, as a whole, has a profound impact on the development ofworld literature. Secondly, from the gender prospect, the subvert patriarchal discourse,self-constructed gender awareness and women value system of overlapping and lost inKorea China Women Growth Novel have shown the breakthrough and confusion duringthe development of Korea-China feminist thought. Finally, from the literary historyprospect, this chapter explains the contribution of Korea-China Women Growth Novel interms of the theme of the novel, text construction, narrative discourse etc, to thedevelopment of modern Korea-China literature development.