The Pursuit Of Cultural Ideal And Its Spiritual World Of Shen Congwen's Novel Writing

This thesis probes into the writing subject's cultural mental world to discover the track of its pursuing cultural ideal from the course of Shen Congwen's novel writing and his life, to dig and analyze the special culture reserved in his novel text, further to find the source of his cultural consciousness which he accepted and chose, and to reflect the plentitude and complicacy in the writing subject's cultural spiritual world , then to analyze its culture ideal and spirit implicated in the construction of the artistic world of Shen Congwen's novels ,finally to summary the meaning, value and confine of cultural writing of his novels. With a total view of the course of Shen Congwen's novel writing, he, the first, pursued the present of individual life consciousness in the real difficult life, with the personal pure experience from his life, and made his spiritual feeler stretch into the space which preserved his warm, fragrant and fine memories in his hometown, in order to find substance for his feeling and his mind. His criticizing the city civilization and constructing the ideal spiritual home, is to pursue the form of ideal life and the beauty, kindness of humanity, to provide a beautiful dwelling for the good, honest and pure mind, so that to realize the rest of man's soul and spirit. When his ideal lost in the real world, he made great efforts to overstep himself, let his spiritual feeler stretch out of the world of Xiangxi, to concern and think the destiny and prospect of the nation even the mankind's future. The course of Shen Congwen's pursuing culture ideal is a gradual and constantly surpassing process. In the course he inherited and developed the new cultural spirit of enlightenment and saving the nation from extinction in the period of "Wusi". With continuous overstepping, finally, he made this spirit grow into his culture ideal of "enlightening the person"and "saving the nation"with the literature, which embody that he wanted make expression of concerning the existence of the nation and enlightening the personal soul and mind with the literature, and regarding the literature as the weapon to improve the society.