Studies On Western Prose In New Period

Western prose in the new period is an important part of Chinese western literature, as well as the organic ingredient of Chinese contemporary prose. Not only is Western prose in the new period a mark of cultural history and spiritual ethos which are native to the west, but also the participant of Chinese contemporary literature construction, which plays an active role in rebuilding Chinese national spirit. The leading writers of western prose in the new period include Li Ruobing, Yang Wenyu, Jia Pingwa, Zhou Tao, Ma Lihua, Liu Liangcheng, Zhang Kunhua, Ling Du, Shi Xiaoxi, Liu Zhicheng, Xing Xiuling, Feng Yi, Pan Qi, Pang Jianke, Guo Wenbin, Ma Busheng, Mei Zhuo, Wu Jingya, Feng Qiuzi, and Gu, Wang Peng, etc. Compared with central and eastern prose, western prose in the new period has its unique spiritual trait and deep cultural connotation. The thesis is to give a systematic and detailed discussion about its unique spiritual trait and deep cultural connotation. It consists of three parts: introduction, fundamental statements and conclusion. The first chapter is the Introduction, Chapterâ…¡to Chapterâ…§are fundamental statements, and Chapter IX is the conclusion.In the first chapter, it defines the concept of Chinese western prose in the new period and describes the research actualities. First, the intension and extension of Chinese western prose in the new period should be defined clearly, then a main review is given, which is based upon the comments of western prose in the history of Chinese contemporary literary, the history of Chinese contemporary prose, the history of modern western literature in China. The thesis summarizes and analyses existing studies on western prose, and to seek for new study probablity in some fields.In chapterâ…¡, it describes the development course of western prose in the new period, which consisted of two periods. It is a first stage from the founding of New China to the 4th national committee in literature and art. The ideological expression and artistic exploration of the former influenced the literature creation in new period. In the history of 30 years'development, western prose in the new period shows some aesthetic features in different stages under the influence of politics, economy, culture and the other trends of thought.In chapterâ…¢andâ…£, it discuss the spiritual trait of western prose in the new period, namely to defend spiritual highland, to magnify life consciousness, to express affliction consciousness, and to convey boundary thought. During the social transforming period, with the political fervor subsiding gradually and the material desire expanding limitlessly, all kinds of humanistic spirit's crisis appeared in social life. Western prose sticks to maintaining the spiritual character of prose, and keeps watching and rebuilding the spiritual highland of human. In the respects of catching on life, communicating with life and expressing life, western prose actively blazes abroad consciousness of life that show the eager concern for human and the natural life. Due to the harsh nature and ecology, the miserable consciousness formation of western prose results from the tough existence environment and the bitter historical memories of western China, meanwhile The best ways to beyond suffering include purifying morals, religious sympathy, and aesthetic expression. Western China is on the edge of politics, economy and culture, so that boundary culture come into being. With the strategy of being marginal, Western writers struggle to resist the others'discrimination, clarify the worth of themselves and seek for dialogue and comprehension.In chapter V, it discusses native memories and urban tastes in the prose of western China in the new period. Country and city become major substances in western prose. Western prose shows the formation process of native memories of writers, which present its abundance and express the modern value of local spirit. Meanwhile, during the process of urbanization, western prose shows the relationship between people and city. The writers search for the developing history of cities, ponder difficult situation of urban life, reveal their ideal of cities.In chapterâ…¥, it talks about the relationship between western prose and regional culture in the new period. Chinese western region has its own unique cultures and has a deep reflection on the representative object, pattern and artistic style due to its special geographical and historical elements. The western authors own the instinct awareness of regional cultures, and they follow it and transcend it on the other side. After the reform and opening of China, authors went abroad to visit foreign countries and study the exotic culture, which broaden their new life experiences and bring the exotic element into western prose. This also has special eyesight on the common generality of human spirit and the future development of our nation in the intercommunication activity.In chapterâ…¦, it talks the ethnic and gender consciousness in western prose. In west China, national minorities scatter the widest, so the ethnologic prose act a significant role in writing. They take on their instinct group awareness in tracing back the national history, representing the ethnic culture, seeking folk soul and thinking future develop, which there are unique in discourse structure and emotional expression. As poetic observers the female authors are representative figures who decribe the tender and gentle western. Their works show the female awareness of the maturity journey, ideal love, physical consciousness, historical unfavourable condition and the modern living difficulty on the process of rebuilding the sentimental world.In chapterâ…§, it talks the care for ecology and historical imagination in western prose. The west is a place where the natural ecological is more serious in China. The authors are burning with anxiety for ecological crisis. They always show ecological ideas, want to keep guard greenness, and pursue the harmony of environment and human beings. The age-old history supplies plenty of discourse resources to western authors, which push them study the historical documents and kinds of heritages, imagine the joy and sorrow of the ancestors. They reflect Chinese history, explain it, and dialogue between them, so there are a few special aesthetic ways in their prose when they express their consideration of the history.Finally, it summarizes the development, spiritual ethos and cultural deposits of western prose in the new time, and clarifies its indispensable importance on the reconstruction of humanistic spirit. At the same time the thesis discusses aesthetic style of the west prose, and views the future outlook and make a search for the future prose creation.