On The Isomorphism Of The Chinese Novel And Society

Based on the rich historical soil and macrostructure of society, this thesis draws from the perspective of sociology on Lucien Goldmann's sociologictheory on novels-happenstantialistic structuralism, chooses structure as the key point of tangency with respect to the change of viewpoint following the sociologic imagination, andthus focuses on the interpretation of sociology on both the Chinese and Western novels by analyzing the social spirits and cultural spirits. From the standpoint of successive longitudinal happenstantialism and conexisting horizontal structuralism, the thesis also endeavors to understand and interpret the complicated relationship between novel structure and spiritual structure of sodiety from the external to the internal, thus systematically illustrates the deep relationship between novels and society.The Theory of Coexisting Structure in happenstantialistic structualism holds that the essential relionship between novels society lies in certain spiritual structure, and that there is rigid common property regarding origin between the structure in the world of works (also called meaniginful structure) and the spiritual structure in certain social groups(or social classes). Based on this perspective, this thesis elaborates the coexisting structure between Chinese novels and social spirits; the ancient Chinese novels which take group ethic departmentalism as essence and the traditional social spirits; the novels of modern times which take the spirits of enlightenment as its essence and the social spirits; the contemporary novels which take the modernlism as its essence and the social spirits.This thesis attempts to gain an insight into the social significance of novels with the help of deep analysis of the works and comprehensive enployment of different theories. Meanwhile, by comparing Chinese and Western novels, this thesis is expected to revel the different cultures underneath the differentsocial structures characterized by novels, the conflicts and mutual cultural spirits of Chinese novels.