Meaning And Structure

The contemporary society of China is in an situation that the modernity progresses rapidly. It decides internally that the pursuit of modernity is the important content of city novel. This dissertation is to open out the situation that city novels are in pursuit of modernity throuhgh playing the city novel in the visual threshold of modernity.This dissertaion is divided into three portion. The first portion is the introdution. It expatiates the background on which the contemporary novels are in pursuit of the modernity and explains that the pursuit of modernity is logical and necessary to city novels.The second portion is the principal part. The first chapter illustrates the relation between city literature and modernity on the basis of discriminating the concept of city literature. The second and third chapter discuss the situation that city novels are in persuit of the subjectivity that is the kernel idea of modernity. The fourth chapter analyses the modernistic meaning of city novel's narration. The fifth chapter tries to find out the conditionality of the city novel' pursuit of modemity.The third portion is the epilogue which valuates the city novel's pursuit of modernity and prospects the tendence of it.