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The Writings About Back Garden In The Chinese Modern Literature

Posted on:2016-04-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S TanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330461467619Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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The back garden is a unique humanity cultural space, the writings of the feature and cultural meaning become a special scene of Chinese modern literature. This article is based on that the modern writers inherit and develop the traditional writing style about the traditional back garden. In the modern transformation of cultural context, the paper will mainly discuss the cultural implication and the narrative function of the writings about back garden in the modern literature.This article consists of introduction, chapter one, chapter two, chapter three and the conclusion part.The first chapter discusses the history about the modern literature writings of the back garden. Firstly, the back garden is a physical space and the unique "rear" position and a variety of practical functions decides the particularity of the space. As a cultural space, back garden has four features-class, secret, public and virtual. Among these features, secret is the important characteristic. With the transformation of the time, the back garden has seeped in the field of literature. Especially in the period of Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties, when dramas and novels involved the writings about back garden become more and more abundant, even directly involved in the text narrative structure. As a result, which became a classical literature mode, and a large number of writers favor it. Into the modern era, the writer witnessed back garden in the sight of modern and tradition, at last,forming a unique modern literature writings about the back garden.The second chapter analyzes the space culture connotation in the modern literature about the back garden, which mainly about the home nostalgia, consciousness of the abandoned garden, and the hidden evil. The modern writers through a narrow home, a back garden, conveys the home nostalgia by the time and space perspective. The man who traveling or residing in a place far away from home is not only finding the past hour, but also pursuing the eternal home feeling in the back garden. Under the friction collision of old and new thought, the modern intellectuals have the contradictory mentality, when they see the depression scene in the back garden. From the depression scene, they are not only felt their home had destroyed, but also saw the tenacious life consciousness. In their insight, the back garden can produced the beautiful love as well as the hidden evil.The third chapter mainly analyzes the narrative function of back garden writings. On the one hand, the narrative function continues the classic narrative tradition, grasps the fate of the characters to promote the plot, and reveals the original human erotic feeling by the joy of scene to write grief. On the other hand, the modern writers give the traditional space a great deal of new period contents, making it become a place for displaying the portraits of family, and the "utopia" of human spiritual world.
Keywords/Search Tags:modern literature, back garden, space, cultural connotation, narrative function
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