Space Writing Of Mai Jia’s Novels

Time and space which are the way of material existence are inseparable.As a place,space has an important impact on people’s production and life.People and space always interact and communicate with each other.Text space is not only the emotional source of the author’s creation,but also the representation of the author’s cognitive space.Since the 1980s,more and more writers have broken the traditional narrative methods and strategies,and integrated the space with literary theory.As a representation and symbol,text space participates in the construction of text meaning.Rich literary resources and cultural patterns nourish literary theory and promote a new breakthrough in theoretical paradigm.Based on the theory of spatial narration,the thesis conducts a comprehensive discussion on Mai Jia’s works through literature research and summary,and summarizes his main novels from the perspective of spatial writing,analyzing Mai Jia’s literary works in the interwoven space of society,geography,history,culture and other factors,which involves the novel space,story structure,reader psychology and so on.The thesis consists of five parts.The introduction part explains the reason and significance of the topic.It introduces the theory of literary space and Mai Jia’s spatial writing,including Mai Jia’s experience and literary creation.The first,second and third chapters are the core parts of the thesis.According to Henri Lefebvre’s field of concern in The Production of Space,the thesis analyzes his works and explains them from three aspects:material space,social space and surreal space.According to the characteristics of Mai Jia’s novels,this thesis can be further divided into regional space,confined space,surveillance space,heterotopia space,dystopian space,psychological space and unreal space,etc.Meanwhile,it analyzes Mai Jia’s spatial writing which promotes the multi-dimensional systematic presentation of Mai Jia’s literary works,and also helps deepen readers’ understanding of the connotation of Mai Jia’s works.From the perspective of space,it analyzes the various meanings of Mai Jia’s works and the rich connotation of natural phenomena and social phenomena.It also studies the social context and practical forms of the works at that time,exploring the deep social and psychological relations.The last part introduces the influence of two famous foreign writers,Borges and Nabokov,on Mai Jia’s spatial writing during the development of spatial narrative theory and how to carry on the text space reading to enhance the reader’s consciousness.As a famous contemporary writer in China,Mai Jia’s works have been republished many times and have been included in "Penguin Classics Library" and so on.The physical space,social space and spiritual space in Mai Jia’s novels have rich ideological connotations,which correspond to the space theory which was highly concerned in the late 20th century.Mai Jia’s novels are full of rich three-dimensional narrative space.Under the care of spatial narrative theory,this thesis is not limited to the traditional and linear reading thinking method in the research and analysis.The spatial narrative brought by "spatial" such as literary geographic space and confined space in Mai Jia’s novels provides "visual thinking".Surveillance space,heterotopia space and other spatial narratives bring "social thinking",while psychological space,unreal space and other spatial narratives bring "imaginative thinking",which gives a new interpretation of the novel text.At the same time,focusing on the world,text,author and reader in the"four elements of literature",the author studies and thinks on the basis of the three fields of physical space,social space and spiritual space concerned by space,takes the world space as the realistic context of space writing,takes the text space as the creative source of space writing,and leads the discourse practice of space writing as the author.The reader’s consciousness is used to explain the reception experience of space writing in order to form a complete and systematic interpretation of space writing in Mai Jia’s novels.