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Native Literature Of The Realm Of Narrative And Imagery Narrative

Posted on:2010-02-19Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J C WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360278978811Subject:Literature and art
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My doctoral dissertation's topic mainly discuss the national literature's (in fact they are mainly novels) paradigm and character of modern native narration. The article argues that both of the realmized-narrative and the imagerized-narrative, which contain inside information from the national culture and gradually take their own initiative to develop maturely two paradigms of modern nation-narrative, are the important paradigms of the 20th century's China modern native narrative. And Shen Cong-wen and Jia Ping-wa are the typical writers of these two national narrative characters, especially on modern native literature.The realm and the image are originally the essence of Chinese classical poetry, as well as other arts. Both of them as important concepts are not only in the epistemological sense, but also in the methodological sense. Because the realm and the image are the essence same as the main body of the traditional culture spirits, they are the united way of traditional Chinese literature and arts, the basic forms of the aesthetic pursuit, and the basic aesthetic method on the history of Chinese literature. The criticism ways of Chinese classical poetry is the case, Chinese modern narrative literature, especially the so-called poetic-fiction or poetic-prose, is so as it, although the later has been changed a lot in terms of the impact of modern rational thinking. The practice of Chinese modern literature is the best proof.Of course the reasoning can be watched as it too. My dissertation just has a try to use the traditional poetic concepts, especially the two core concepts, to explain modern narrative fictions. From the point of view on modern construction of the national narrative characters, based on a large number of resources from modern narrative literature practice, the paper summarizes the most important paradigms and characters of modern national literature as the realmized-narrative and the imagerized-narrative, also it should be said that the realmized-narrative and the imagerized-narrative of modem national literature have not only inherited very consciously from both of the realm and the image, but also what they develop in future will must be on the base of them. And in my paper we try to give justifications for the concept norms, and by comparatively analyzing the characteristics between them. They are yet proved by the interpretation of the mutual-establishing within writing Styles, the development of the patterns of Chinese classic narrative, as well as a few proof on the modern narrative tradition from A Dream of Red Mansions and its impact on Chinese modern literature.Modern native literature's overall character of narrative is not only the birth of modern Western narrative and Modern civilization (modernity), but also the results of the national poetic tradition (Nationality). Especially the national character, with the relatives of the national culture, is of the outcome of the succession and development. It determines that both of them have a more direct method of performance on modern native literature's aesthetic. Therefore, this article in particular has selected the angle of modern native literature to view the narrative national character, and summed up two abstract paradigms: the native realmized-narrative and the native imagerized-narrative, which grounded on the cultural and literary practice, the sufficient reason and the need of theory summary to the reality.Therefore, the text study of native narrative on Shen Cong-wen and Jia Ping-wa' is naturally to enter our vision field, which, as an individual case analysis, is in order to support the basic point of view in this article.Shen Cong-wen was a typical writer of the local literary in the history of modern literature. In his mature writing period, most of the native writings are overall showed for the realmized-narrative, which can be regarded as a modern model on the local narrative level. He cared about the survival of Xiangxi native humanities, which is beyond field of vision. On the other hand, he made Xiangxi as the source of memory and imagination, on the dual character of culture and literature, contrasted with modernity, created a cultural and literary significance of the Xiangxi world. In 1930s, Shen Cong-wen's Xiangxi writing reached the peak. He gazed at Xiangxi survival status with dual awareness of contradictions on modern and native and strong personal feelings, to reflect and review the main original ancient life. From the point of view, he showed his recognition and nostalgia on natural Xiangxi culture, as well as unconsciously was comcerned about the backward and closed Xiangxi, from the perspective of survival realities. To 1940s, Shen Congwen continued to reflect the modern cultural and social reality.In the vision of "humanities and cultural reconstruction" his concept of a natural humanity had a clear point to build a harmonious humanity and an orderly modern harmony "utopia" of the survival. However, the great contrast in real life made Shen Congwen realized that the ideal of human nature had been existed only in the literature, in the world of memory and imagination, so his creativity is only the modern version of "Land of Peach Blossoms in mind". Therefore, from Border Town to the long river, almost his local writings are shadowed with heavy depression of Shen Congwen-style. Just with such a sentiment, at the level of constructing nature life in harmony existing on the ideal of human nature, his native writing makes his organic composition of narrative point of view, his aesthetic poetics, and his life philosophy forming into a unique construction, achieving a high degree of unity. And thus Shen Cong-wen created the extreme form of local character in 20th century that is what we called, the realmized-narrative. The text characteristics of Shen Cong-wen's realmized-narrative mainly are the affectively realmized, emotional viewpoint making entire elements in one, the actual situation inter-action with abstract image (to let the right ideology guide the reality), the unified rules of the narrative elements, as well as the characters focus, space-time structure of the narration and other specific factors that are summarized in my article as the strategy of "water-like narrative", etc.Jia Ping-wa, a contemporary writer, has been writing more than 30 years. His major achievement of modern local narrative is that he has created a culture image of Shangzhou in his literature world for us. His personal feeling flutters synchronously to the emotions of the contemporary Chinese mass society. His works collects Shangzhou contemporary culture as the source to "restore" and "imagine" china modern society, especially the three decades since reform and opening up, being given "epic"-like tracking and reduction. Folk and clans are of the two cultural orientations of Shangzhou in Jia Ping-wa's works to record and imagine verity of life. His sophisticated writings about Shangzhou are an overall showing as a whole chaotic imagerized-narrative, which could be regarded as a modem model of native imagerized-narrative. From the Impetuous to Old Gao Village to Shaanxi/qin Opera, Jia Ping-wa's works are timely performance of the acute farming civilization baked in modern civilization and the slow process of disintegration of discrete; his narrative strategies changed accordingly from realist recording and imagining variety of life; from the imagerized-narrative, to chaotic imagining narrative, and to chaoticized-narrative. Therefore, the world of Jia Ping-wa's works about Shangzhou local is the world of Shangzhou culture imagining. The main features of Jia Ping-wa's imagerized-narrative are the imagerized meaning, a seamless atmosphere and the whole image or the chaos image created in the works, the rule of that use of the actual lining of the elements to act the virtual integration (let correct ideology contrast the reality), the character point-view features, the disordered but same time structure, and Other specific elements in our article called as the strategy (contrast with Shen Cong-wen ) of "mountain-like narrative", etc.In this paper, the author considers on the whole that the two paradigms are not only the essential paradigms of 20th century national characters of Chinese Narrative Literature, but the contribution of the narrative to world literature as a whole character. So they are not only the characteristics to the local narrative but also the essential quality of narrative structure to the whole narrative in the history of modern literary. They are the Nation's, also the World's. In the contemporary era, it is showed generally that the realmized-narrative and the imagerized-narrative are possibly the paths to continue innovation, and the important point of entry to the native criticism ways of modern Chinese literary or the transformation to the national discourse.
Keywords/Search Tags:Modern native literature, national character, the realmized-narrative, the imagerized-narrative, Shen Cong-wen, Jia Ping-wa
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