A Description On The Types Of Historical Novel In The New Days

The historical novel in the new days is a noticeable phenomenon. The historical novel not only is abundant in the quantity and outstanding in the achievement but also shows the rich and colorful creating appearance. It incarnates the author's praiseworthy efforts in the creating field of the historical novel in the new days. Since the new historical novel come into existence, the notion given to the historical novel by the critics are very chaotic, moreover, many valuable works created in the nearly years haven't gone into the field of the critics' vision. By reviewing and marshaling the notion of the historical novel, it is defined which obtaining materials from the really historical records; which having a certain span of time, using the significant historical events as the background; which using the historical events and people as the body and shell and putting forth effort to convey the historical spirit. With regard to the historical novel sieved out by the definition giving above, the text divides the historical novel into five types according to the typing theory, such as the traditional historical novel, the new historical novel, the cultural historical novel, the poetic historical novel and the bantering historical novel. The classification is in accordance with the actual creating situation. We must admit the classification isn't absolute. What follows is the specific analysis about the historical novel in five types.The traditional historical novel, which uses pursuing the reality as the principle, originates in the historical and official culture in the ancient time. The deep historical consciousness gives the creating impetuous to the traditional historical novel1 authors at the epoch's transition so their achieves are very rich. They not only keep up the fascination of the traditional historical novel, but also have some innovation. The creating of the traditional historical novel obtains many achievements. However, the authors equal the literary creating to the complication of the history, so the outstanding works aren't rich.The new historical novel gets the western ideological trend and native culture resources united. It's an overthrown to the formerly historical concept and the traditional historical novel. The new historical novel has the overthrowing as their mutual characteristics, but their creating features take on different styles. However, the non- historical attitude and the old historical concept restrain their vitality on some degree.The cultural historical novel often uses the clan and the homeland as the warp and the woof to fabricate the people and the story, which not only placing on the author's strong historical consciousness and the national spirit but also having the deep cultural aroma. The cultural historical novel's authors in the new days pursue the epic poetic character of their own free will, so that they create many deepgoing works. But the authors of the cultural historical novel lack in certain thinking depth, so they can't create the epic works.The poetic historical novel is the combination of the historical novel and the poetic novel, which doesn't attach importance to the reality, but endeavors to look for the poetry form the history. The authors of the poetic historical novel often cast their emotion to the history and use the history people and the history story to express them. Therefore, its style of writing presents the poetry tendency and the aestheticism.Wang xiao-bo's creation makes the bantering historical novel get up to a new-altitude. He exercised the bantering manner to describe the absurd prospects of the history, made use of the history to satire the present and placed his humanistic ideal in the history. He attacks the unreal history written by the writers who own the authority and discloses the historical amnesia caused by the violence. For this reason, his words always led us to think from the humor.