The View On Children As Reflected In Chinese Novels In Recent 20 Years

Ph.D.Candidate: He Wei Qing Supervisor: Zhao Yi Heng Cao Shun QingThe thesis focuses on "the Children problem" in Chinese non-children novels. Tracing the development of novel historically, the author holds that the existence of "children" has been of great importance in recent 20 years in Chinese novels, which is reflected in 3 aspects.Firstly, in the novel, from standing in the margins of narrative and glossing the adults at its center, child characters emerge into the schematic of the plot. Secondly, more or less, child in the novel has narrative effects capable of serving novelist's particular purposes, whether psychological, social or artistic. Thirdly, same configurations of child are working out in greater depth and on a larger scale, not only in individual novels of different novelists but also through novels of same authors. They are individually mimesis thematic and synthetic of the children in Chinese novels in recent 20 years.Refer to Filon James's model of character, this thesis analyses various patterns of children as reflected in novels, try to investigate the enigma of child, which is why the enigma must exist and the enigma of child as significant to the flow of narrative and dialectic of a novel.The thesis consists of three chapters:In chapter one, the author analyses the existence of child in stories of novels.In chapter two, the author analyses the existence of child in discourse of novels.In chapter three, the author analyses the existence of child as images between novels.By all of above, the author puts forward three opinions:1 :In Chinese novels in recent 20 years, children are wrote a kind of power against adult world; 2.Children in novels construct a pattern of imagism of Contemporary Chinese literature; 3.There are three modes of which novelists observe child.