The Research Of Parallel Novels In The Early Times Of The ROC

Based on the research of parallel novels in the early times of the ROC,the paper is intent upon breaching the limitations,in which the academics lay particular stress on case analysis of writers and their works, especially the significance of the social ethics.It focuses on their overall interpretation of the stylistic characteristics as a sub-category of classic Chinese novels,defines and discusses their concept,linguistic style and aesthetic character,makes a finer stylistic analysis on their situation to highlight their language charm and aesthetic style.Moreover, the paper also discusses their material type,narrative mode,as well as the creative and receiving environment in order to make a systematic research on them by integration of internal and external ways.It consists of 5 chapters.The 1^stchapter mainly expatiates the concept,aesthetic character and type of parallel novel.It is divided into 4 parts:The first part construes the ambiguous attitudes of academic towards parallel novel,pointing out the reasons for these attitudes.The second one defines and explains the concept of parallel novel as "what is called parallel novel,means that it uses large-scale parallel prose,and forms a unique aesthetic character of the classical Chinese novel,relative to the sporadic one used in the bulk classical Chinese novel ",and indicating the reasons and difficulties during the work.The third part discusses the aesthetic style of the parallel novel.And the last one pays attention to the type of the parallal novel,and will divide it into two categories, "Practical one" and "Miscellaneous one",taking the function as a standard,The 2^ndchapter reviews the parallel novels before the ROC,taking a case study to the representative novel text with intention of providing a context of novel history to the research of parallel novel in the early times of the ROC.The paper will analyze the ratio and the function of parallel prose in the text,and the type of the parallel novel by inspection of Han,Wei,Six dynasties "Novels",Tang legend,Song note-novels,Ming Dynasty "Jiandeng Xinhua ","Jiandeng Yuhua","Guose Tianxiang",Qing "Liaozhai Zhiyi" and other representative novels.The paper will carry out case studies in the "Youxian Cave" and "Yanshan Waishi". The 3^rdchapter deals with the stylistic characteristics and aesthetic style of the parallel novels of the early years of the ROC.They may be called as unique-style poetry novels with a universal aesthetic character of lyrical poetry.Poetic style got the birth from parallel prose languages used by parallel novel,especially those during Qi and Liang Periods.Poetic style makes parallel novel with a feminine beauty because of its gorgeous image,reciprocating lingering effect generated by antithesis,historical and cultural charm in literary quotation,beauty of harmony phonology, keen language lyric nature,and so on.The 4^thchapter cards the type of novel materials and narrative mode in early years of the ROC.Parallel novels in the early years of the ROC not only write love stories between men and women,but social topics and historical themes,the performance of the literati mentality.Even love stories show their diversity,including "tragic events" describing love tragedy,"romantic" depicting lovers with a wedding,and "describing affection" with the major idea of romancing warm love.Some of them adopt traditional narrative mode,and there are also works with an "interface" beginning and an open end,obviously influenced by Western novels.The 5^thchapter analyzes the creative and receiving environment of the parallel novel in the early years of the ROC.It mainly deals with the reason of the boom of the parallel novel in that era,as well as the criticism upon them.Based on the parallel prose education and inditement before the ROC.parallel novel in the early times of the ROC gained its potential author and reader groups and got its prosperity.Social and political environment in that time turned some author's steps to indite parallel novel.And more intrinsic factor is the impact of the traditional Chinese scholar and the author's emotional personality.With the boom of the parallel novel,critical voices arise.The criticism from "May 4" new writers is sharper and more thorough with some inevitably extreme misconduct.Because of the diversion of style of writing and literature interesting,the enthusiasm of parallel novel faded away after 1919.