The Poetic Creation Of The "Son Of The Earth "

The New Literary Age witnessed the emergence of a unique expression of humanism presented by Zhangwei from Shandong with the dominant feature of "resistance" revealed in his major works.All through his literary creation, Zhangwei persistently protestsagainst the social conventions, pursuing a poetic return to the "wild", the"popular". Owing to the peculiar way of his writing, Zhang is generallyconsidered as the Chinese spokesman of the pure which has been adoptedby the "indignant" writers. The thesis attempts to make attentivediscussion on the aesthetic nature, emotion and quality reflected inZhangwei's novels. So that readers may have an easier access to theartistic nature of his novels. The novels created by Zhangwei demonstratea clear tendency for Populism. Zhang strongly holds that the rural wildcivilization should be promoted to remedy the lost Souls of thebewildered and trapped in the modern process of urban civilization. Hispopulism tendency in his novels has significant multi-directions andvariability, combining the qualities of Confucian School culture fromShandong with his populism tendency. The aesthetic emotion expressedin Taoist culture has two factors of romance and reason. The pastoralnostalgia and jubilant society, the value view of valuing the merging withthe wild, the pilgrimage of the spiritual return to the ancestry altogetherconstitute the fundmental expression of the ideal, poetic and Utopianfeatures of Zhangwei's creation. Moreover, his composition also bases onthe reason, which is reflected by the gradual and positive self-examination from the individual wisdom to the community reason. The poetic treatment on the society conventions suggests that he has adjusted the displacement of his writing. A cultural perspective is adopted in analyzing the aesthetic quality. Thus, the artistic characteristic are revealed through the following three aspects of character image system, inside and outside rhythm and the narrative technique .The ideal spiritual mansion of Zhangwei centers on the cultural significance of four types of character images, which interprets the multi-morality theme in his value system. The unique beauty of the rhythm is intensified by the combination of the inside and outside rhythm in the Zhang's novels. And in this way the interspaces of deep meaning of his works are expanded. The turning of the narrative technique from simple form to propagate plots shows the development of Zhangwei's creation and modern features. The huge family narrative trap and inside narration of story convey strongly cultural significance. His literary creation contains the two value systems of the author's psychologically harbored "ego" and "anti-ego".The thesis is intended to throw light on Zhangwei's profoundly meaning uncovered signification of the human nature and the others existing together in his writing mind based on a comprehensive research on his literary creation.