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A Study Of The Cultural Significance In Jinyong's Martial Novels

Posted on:2002-07-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360032453363Subject:Literature and art
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Under the background of traditional culture coupling with temporary reading habits, putting Jinyong's works as the analysis standpoint, the essay discusses why those fighting fiction can keep everlasting charm among its readers. Discussion is developed from two aspects:First is that Jinyoug's fictions give something readable to enjoy from the context. It further analyses the reasons from the following points. A. Under the environment of late colonial culture, Jintong's novels make efforts to track the roots of the traditional culture which make readers realize their precious memory and reminiscence towards long-honored chivalrous spirit. What's more, it expresses most Chinese's strong feeling for culture. His novels indicate its characters of the inheritance and development of traditional culture unconsciously. This is because his novels gain so many readers. B.Chivalry, as a sort of existing history has become far from our modern life. It must be admitted that a kind of psychological distance exists between the aesthetic of human realistic life and the world, which is described by chivalrous novels. It is this existence of "distance effect" that given incentive to reader's expectation to explore the unknown world and that give an everlasting charming to chivalrous novels. This is another reason why readers enjoy Jinyong's novels. C. In terms of theory of consciousness and collective unconsciousness. Jinyong's novels evaluated particularity of a nation's aesthetic psychology and further demonstrated the cultural connotation and internal agreement in natural aesthetic psychology from the viewpoint of the combination farsighted picture and effective history. D. Taking the mythological thought as viewpoint, this paper analyses that the animal description in Jinyong's novels are in conformity with the thought of everything has its characteristics. As for the fascinated worship for the martial arts, people in fact adore the spirit of the living.Under the cover of rationally, chivalrous novels have a strong worship towards the primitive living keeping with the mythological thought of the unified life. From this point of view, chivalrous novels referring to the description of ancient myth reach the high mergence with the people primitive thoughts. Furthermore this paper preliminarily explains that Jinyong's chivalrous novels show the tragic consciousness, which spread and develop the Chinese's tragic thought. Furthermore, this paper analyses the alienation of people in Jinyong's novels.Second, from the viewpoint of the readers, the chivalrous novels as a kind of pleasant novels directly meet the needs of the readers under the industrial civilization background. From this point, this paper experienced transitional period from tradition to later modern novels successfully change the traditional model to satisfaction with the readers expressed in later current novels. Most novels express the lofty of the history depriving these heroes and wars of an honorable atmosphere as well as doing its best to return a reality. Moreover, Jinyong's novels expresses modern consciousness in way the traditional chivalrous novel are written so that reader can make sense the life in the feeling of game. Meanwhile, This paper analyses the effective tricks, which are from the game function of Jinyong's novels by means of M-Bahktin's revelatory theory such as humorous style, ironic, techniques and quick rhythm tricks of these tricks, make readers enjoy much from game in a relaxed mood.In short , the essay does it best to ate all cultural artistic conceptions in fiction from the viewpoint of context and reader, and observes fighting fiction rationally for that is not mere a behavior game and entertainment.
Keywords/Search Tags:traditional culture, psychology of national aesthetic, mythical thought, alienation of human personality, game
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