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Aesthetic Modernity Vision Of Contemporary Urban Novels

Posted on:2006-06-16Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360155959602Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In the linguistic context of China,the city becomes one of core in the sight of people.The city is not merely regarded as the modernized material space,and regarded as new ideology,new psychological structure,new values,new interpersonal relationships,new humane system.It is media of the cultural mechanism of new spirit,because people have experienced generally the city is comparatively all sorts of value contradictions of embodiment transformation period of centre.Reflect it in the literature text,city novel no longer appear with ultimate care common customs. It still includes ecology,sociology, political economy,science of culture,aesthetics,psychology and so on. This selected title tries to explain the novel of contemporary city of China from the vision of aesthetic modernity,and its main purpose is to announce modern aesthetic speciality,abundant aesthetic form,the complicated aesthetic consciousness and inherent aesthetic gradual progress law of the novel of contemporary city.Because the novel of contemporary city of China has already surmounted the aesthstic taboo,and have chosen all sorts of challenging writing posture.At the same time,with the impact of the commodity spring tide,the city novel goes through all sorts of bemusement and torment,and all these make it have break-through and reconstruction on aesthetics,so it is not enough to research the city novel from society,culture,economy literature outside. In addition,though aesthetic modernity,as a theory focus,is unripe and illegibility in the connotation,it has a quite positive meaning in the theory shape and theory enriching of " modernity ". On the theory circle,one point that can reach common understanding basically is that the aesthetic modernity is not the form of affirming of the modernity,but surmounting and denying to modernity.In addition,the aesthetic modernity involve in aesthetics and social science of culture:reflect as the modern's aesthetic psychology,and as the aesthetic culture of the modern society too.This has undoubtedly offered a quite ideal breakthrough point for studying Contemporary Literature,especially to the city novel keeping the synchronous relation with the modernization.Among aesthetic vision of modernity,especially multiple essential of the city novel is shown.Thus achieve the goal of deepen studying the novel of contemporary city,and this will be innovation studying in the view point of the thesis. This thesis main include the following several respect: Study contemporary city modernity culture background that novel genesis.Firstly,State the process of China's urbanization briefly,and the change of social structure in pace with urbanization process,so it is proving that the forming of citizen's society is an external inducement that accelerate prosperity of contemporary city novel.Secondly,in the modernized course of city,the city culture has shown its own uniqueness.Unprecedented prosperity of the material and culture,consumption of masses' life,new orientation of the city resident's psychology and so on,such city peculiar culture phenomena ebecome culture background that the novel of contemporary city is created.Third,the mature period as city novel of the 1990s,has formed the cultural idea rich in modernity progressively:Inflation of economic consciousness,the publicizing of freedom and individual character spirit,and the appearance of modernism spirit,especially the blending,query among various aesthetic culture offer an exoteric modernity linguistic context for city novel at end of the century,and make the city novel of this period demonstrate the plural aesthetic speciality at the same time. Study the forming,development and current situation of the modern aesthetic consciousness of the novel of contemporary city.This part is mainly to do historical combing to the modern thinking of the city novel, that is to say to describe the aesthetic course of the city novel .From the twenties to the forties Chinses city novel was literature of "city village"that brought deep Chinese native soil civilization experience, traditional feudal consciousness and fuzzy western modern thought.From the fifties to the seventies,under the checking of words of political right,the value coordinate of the modern city had no way to setting up, and the rural value idea was reflected because of helping hand of the political words instead,the development of the city novel got into a difficult position.The initial stage of the eighties,city novel developed to some extent,but it vacillated in between modern city consciousness and deposit of the remote traditional consciousness,and shown as the prosperity of "town literature".Until the mid-or late-1980s,city modern thinking of basic hopeand basic interests of the people of modern city,just move towards the central position progressively in the city novel. In the 1990s,with the chubbiness of modern city material,the spiritual space of the city expanded day by day.There is rich soil implanted city modern thinking,and show great complexity,and the city novel is bearing the weight of the complexity.This undoubtedly becomes one of the key research of the selected title. Study the modern aesthetic spirit in the novel of contemporary city.Regarded as the important research contents of a selected title,set about from the variety of novel theme and intension of aesthetic modernity,and announce aesthetic spirit of the modern that hides in city nove from many angles,and analyse the aesthetic complexity of the city novel at the same time.Aesthetic modernity comes to oppose and subvert a certain value inclination of social modernity with the sensibility,if we perspect the novel of contemporary city,especially the city novel of the 1990s from this angle,there is new inspiration.Firstly,personality spirit that novel embody reflect the positive meaning. in confronting with major ideology.But in individualize,women city writing,personality spirit move towards extreme. Secondly, city common customs spirit that novel embody,apparent aesthetic feeling spirit,but it has contradiction nature: On one hand city literature has value tropism which resists the doctrine of logos,on the other hand city literature has inclination of popular style,popularization,materialize.Third,the pioneer spirit in the city nove,contemporary city novel explores predicament and value of citizen with subversion and bolshy spirit,and embody a concentrated reflection of alienation personality and roam consciousness.This selected title tries hard to generalization to the modern aesthetic spirit of city literature,to widen the thinking studied about literature of contemporary city. Study the modern aesthetic form of the novel of contemporary city.The city novel of the 1990s already become more and more ripe,and have considerable progress more than the previous city novel on the aesthetic form aspect.No matter narration visual angle,shape of narrating,narrate language,or narration position of writer demonstrate the surmounted situation.The form in which this part will be analysed with the case,and take novel of different narration angle as an example,in order to discuss Chinese contemporary city novel aesthetic gradual progress of form,and sketch the contours of city novel in modernity view.
Keywords/Search Tags:aesthetic modernity, China, contemporary, the city novel
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