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Modern Chinese Women Novel Fantasy Writing

Posted on:2010-11-27Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360302957720Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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"Woman born with love dreaming"is one of day-to-day idoms.The "dream" in it not only refers to the life acitivity appearing in daily sleep, but also containing complex social and cultural factors and the cognitive of women's gender identity and gender roles.It can be said, as a hidden and changable level of human emotional experience,"dream" have a close relation to the female life experience.and the "dreams" in the literaral works, especiely in the female literaral works, are the appropriate platform of perspecting and analyzing female life.This paper take the writing about dream in the Chinese contemporary female novels as the study object,contacting the writing about dream of Chinese traditional literature, analyse the typical texts about dream in this area.Introduction part point out the study objects of the paper and determine the connotation of the concepts about "dream" at first.Then review the theories about "dream" of Chinese and foreign, focusing the part of influenced by the traditional gengder culture.next, carding the research status and research ideas about "dream" in literature and the existing problem. At last, explain the reason and value of this paper.Chapter one puts emphasis on discussing the relationship between the dream writing and female subjectivity. At first, expound the new features reflecting the modern women's subjectivity in the dream writing of the contemporary female novels.Which reflected in some respects, such as female roles, female subject and female hidden experience.Next choose the representative "dreams" and texts of different stages and analyze the modern women's exploration and confused.Chapter two puts emphasis on discussing the supporting and blending between the writing about dream and female emage. This aspect discussed the female emage associated with the dream in the contemporary female novels.Which is "women lived in the dream", "women in the dream"and"women like the dream", the women putting dream's mirror as the reference point or take dream as Intermediary, and "mad women" with the characteristics of "nightmare"or"dream".This aspect focuses on the deep cultural psychology and the cultural imagination of the female emage. Chapter three focuses on the narrative mode and text functions.According to the main cultural functions of "dream", such as desire to achieve, life habitate and salvation, the metaphor characterization of the inherent conflict.This aspect summed the dream writing in the contemporary female novels into three narrative modes:"dream-fail","habitate-salvation","thought-representation".These is the way connecting the soul to the outer world that female writers explored, which not only reflects the dream narrative of the contemporary female novels have a complex contect with traditional women writing about dream, but also embodies the influence that the social and cultural background, gender idea and narrative intentions of writers to dream narrative.Chapter four specifically analyzes the artistic expression and gender strategy which borrow the basic characteristics and cultural features of all kinds of "dream" in the contemporary female novles. Thay are the language and the form of the incoherent talk liked illusion in the female novels since the new age, the nightmare-style writing represented in the novels of Zong-pu and Can-xue, and the dream narrative with male narrator. These artistic expressions are the path of resisting the dysphasia, expressing the true ego and renewing the narrative view and content that the modern writers explored. And at some times, which also revealed the limitations that under the influence of traditional gender ideas.Conclusion summarizes the new features of the writing about dream in the contemporary female novles at the integral level, and point out the limitations and shortcomings.The writing about dream in the contemporary female novles is an artistic representation about the life experience, gender thinking and inherent contradictions of the modern female, which not only exhibit the subject exploration and the pursuit of modern female, but also display the improvement in the gender ideas, dream ideas and artistic representations, and the efforts to the culture buiding of gender equality.
Keywords/Search Tags:the contemporary female novel, the wrting about dreams, female emage, narrative mode, gender strategy
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