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Intellectuals' Exploration And Expression

Posted on:2003-07-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:K A HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360062995802Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Modern Chinese essays fall into one of the important category in Chinese literature in the 20th century. They are closely related to the experience of spiritual frustrations of the Chinese intellectuals in the 20th century. However, little research has been done into it over a long period of time, Therefore, composing a treatise on modern Chinese essays becomes one of the urgent tasks. The pioneering and potential theoretical value of this task contributes to the author's choosing this subject as the target of his dissertation.Based on much first-hand information, the author involved himself in a great deal of reading and comparing, which finally led to a clear framework of this dissertation. Firstly, the concept of "essay" is categorized into that of "social criticism" and "civilization criticism". Then, using the rising of modern intellectual class as the background, the author goes on to illustrate how the modern Chinese essayists carried out their extensive social criticism and civilization criticism through essays in the 20th century. At this point, Luxun and Zhou Zuoren are taken as examples for illumination. At the same time, the developing process of modern Chinese essays are also touched upon. This dissertation focuses on contextual research of modern essays. Viewing from the essayists' modes of thinking, the author holds that unsystematicness, familiarity, wittiness, irony, and humor are the five aesthetic features of modern Chinese essays. Furthermore, the author also discusses about the heritage and innovations of the essay tradition both in China and foreign countries, as well as the merits and defects of modern Chinese essays.
Keywords/Search Tags:modern essay, social criticism, way of thinking, artistic forms
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