About The Image And The Motif In Yan Lianke's Local Novels

The Local Literature founded by Lu Xun, takes an important place in the Chinese modern literature history. Since the 20th century the art choice of the Local Novel has always been presenting the condition of diverse explorations, meanwhile, its literary significance and cultural value have become an attractive research topic. In the 1980s, Yan Lianke' local novels were published, and until the 1990's, his many works had been published in succession, which were the novelette such as A Bamboo Rake's song to Heaven, A Bamboo Rake's Mountain Area, Years, Months and Days, and the novels of the Sunshine and the Passing Years, Enjoy and the dream of Ding Village est. These works give us a fresh and new surprise and we are deeply shocked by them. What's more, these works arouses the interests and dispute in literary area time and time.This article carries on the text analysis to the image and the motif in Yan Lianke's local novels. It explores the image system constitution and the culture meaning of Yan Lianke's literature world, the literature significance of the motif writing as well.The main text is divided into two parts:Chapterâ… analyzes the important images in the Yan Lianke's local novels bases on combing many image theories of all countries and all the times in the world. The images in his works can mainly be classified to the solar image, the animal image, the plant image and the dream image. By the analysis and explanation of these images, we want to reveal the relationship between the different images, the prototype images and the culture meaning of them, by which to discover the interior relation in the literature works of different time.Chapterâ…¡combs the motif in Yan Lianke's local novels on the basis of neatening different concepts of the motif, which induces six aspects: namely starvation, disaster, disease and death, sexual affection, as well as regional authority and culture and so on. By researching the novel's motif, this article aims to discover the writer's attention direction to the society, the country life and the local social style in the novels.The last part is a conclusion. Through the image and the motif analysis to Yan Lianke's local novel, we may discover it's surrealism color is becoming deeper and deeper, which comes from to the writer's profound ponder to the Chinese realistic countryside as well as the unique understanding and art reaction about the change of countryside in the process of modernizing.