The Study In The Stylistic Spirit Of Old Tales Retold

This article researched the relationship of the unique stylistic and profound spirit of Old Tales Retold from the point of view of "style spirit", and studies it from these three levels:the choice of subject, narrative strategy and Lu Xun’s aesthetic taste.In the choice of the subject,"new stories" of the object is to rewrite history. This is because Lu Xun focused on history long-term. And he believed that China’s traditional "historical discourse" is doubtable, so he reveals the history is "rhetorical". Using the myths and legends as the subject, coming from Lu Xun’s willing of returning to the original memory of China and survey the Chinese culture and ideology systematically. From "the mythic age" to "the hero age" and then to " Pre-qin times ", Old Tales Retold showing the human how to know the world, explaining the world and transform the world. From "death" to "discard" and then to "escape", Lu Xun criticized the utopia in mordent intellectual view. The novels observe Chinese civilization with the modern and overall perspective. The history and the real life docking successfullyIn narrative strategies, Old Tales Retold arranges each narrative elements of source text newly. The main methods are stitching, adaptation and increase, make they conform to law of cause. These stories become into plots, events have Lu Xun’s values, so Lu Xun got the rights of interpretation of the history. Old Tales Retold is a "human history". In characters relationship, novel set "behavior character" and "background character" fight, but the nature of the conflict is the conflict between person and society. Vernacular, classical, foreign languages are used to show the different identity character’s struggle, the official language and culture class is its ironic point. In the structure arrangement, construction and destruction express Lu Xun’s "irony world view". Cooperating with novel eager and relaxing alternate play, the tragic theme of the novel was fully literature to the performance.In the aesthetic taste, Old Tales Retold has the characteristics of folk. In the narrative perspective, described philosopher as an ordinary person and writing the conflict as comedy, show the characteristics of folk, but Lu Xun criticized the folk. In the observation ways, the strong characters and cool narrative, show in the novel is ubiquitous in the Wei Jin manner. Novel call for the "sincerity" and "love" for Chinese national character, but at the same time to the real world and the many helpless, points out the sincerity and love the difficult realization. In the novel of the genre, writing history as literature, Old Tales Retold becoming free, beyond side, writing novel as essays make novel return to reality. Novel swimming in poetry-think-history, experimental novel style and serious thought to the theme "new stories" present "bu you er you" spiritual qualities.