| Through the descriptions and analyses about the three important authors in the history of Chinese modern novels: Xia Zhiqing, Chen Pingyuan, and Yang Lianfen, this thesis is trying to research into the three factors: novel, historical, and modern characteristics of the essence and significance of the history of Chinese modern novels. It takes the three authors as examples to discuss the following questions: 1. As a literary genre, what differentiates novels from other forms of literature? 2. As one of the literary history, on what sides does the history of novels present its historical and literary characteristics respectively? 3. In what ways can the modern characteristics of the history of Chinese modern novels be interpreted? In this thesis, the above three questions are to be discussed in the contexts of the three authors in terms of their contributions to the literary history and their connotative significances culturally and politically. In addition, sufficient attention is also to be paid to their individuality, the individual perspectives of philosophy, the academic logic of their thinking.In details, the chapters are to be devoted to the following aspects as far as the three authors are concerned: analysis on the literary criticism by Xia Zhiqing in The History of Chinese Modern Novels and his obsessions of "art and life" in "Man's Literature", the formation of Chen Pingyuan's literary style of "narration and commentary" and his literary perspective of looking at the outside social and political factors from the inside literary world and thus to connect both sides of the literary history, and Yang Lianfen's findings of "non-aesthetic relations in aesthetics" in Chinese modern literary history. In this way, the thesis is trying to present a whole picture of the history of Chinese modern novels of the new age by way of a detailed examination into the three cases historically and systematically and thus balance the microcosmic and macroscopic factors of literary history research.
|
PDF Full Text Request