A Study In The View Of Modernity About The Chinese Swordsmen Popular Novel Of Twentieth Century

Thanks to the climax of1990’s study, the research of Chinese swordsmen popular novel of twentieth Century has yielded a rich harvest. But it has the chief drawback that the researcher didn’t frequently study it in the Chinese modem literature history. In this paper, I wish pushing it ahead with revealing internal logic between swordsmen popular novel and modem literature history. Now, the chinese swordsmen popular novel suits both refined and popular tastes while During the Qing Dynasty it was only cheap entertainment literature. The change was due to it learn from the elegant literature. At the same time, it illumined the elegant literature by its entertainment and aesthetic modernity. To keep up with the pace of the times, the Chinese swordsmen popular novel of twentieth Century must avoid shortcoming of Qing Dynasty’s swordsmen novel. The upgrading is not only a good opportunity but also a severe challenge to writers. Here I choose three writers, jinyong, liangyusheng, gulong as the focal point of study and the minor writers are also be discussed. By Integrating point and sphere, cultural studies and esthetic research,The author hopes that this study may clarify cultural connotation and Aesthetic Connotations of the Chinese swordsmen popular novel of twentieth Century. In the view of modernity, This dissertation discussed the dominant theme, figure, and artistic characteristics of the Chinese swordsmen popular novel of twentieth Century.The dissertation consists of four chapters besides the introduction and conclusion. The details are as follows:1. Introduction:In this part the author mainly discusses characteristics of mixed culture of China’s modernity. This feature shaped the Statute of Chinese popular literature and the Chinese swordsmen popular novel of twentieth Century. Meantime,offers a review on the Study history and propose new ideas.2. Chapter1:In this part the author summarizes development model and its phase of modernity of the Chinese swordsmen popular novel of twentieth Century. The fusion of elite and popular literature, Ancient and modern culture is main culture content and the difficult part. After the May Fourth literature revolution, to keep up with the pace of the times, Chinese swordsmen popular novel’s writer continuously introduced Discourse of revolutionary, enlightenment and modernism into their work. Specifically, liangyusheng’s novel introduced discourse of revolutionary; jinyong’s novel discourse of enlightenment; gulong’s novel introduced discourse modernism.In the other hand, Public culture also shaped the developement of Chinese swordsmen popular novel of twentieth Century.3. Chapter2:This part mainly deals with Central idea of the Chinese swordsmen popular novel of twentieth Century. Focused primarily on modern features of cultural content of Liang Yusheng, JinYong, gulong’s novel, liangyusheng’s novel introduced discourse of revolutionary; jinyong’s novel discourse of enlightenment; gulong’s novel introduced discourse of modernism. the author elaborates on the subject Cultural connotation by analyzing major idea, fighting skill and emotion. On the basis of analyzing and studying works of fiction, the author concluded that bondage of traditional culture on the personality has been breaked and modern personality also is been constrained by traditional culture.4. Chapter3:In this part the author analyzes literary image of swordmen. Under the influence of elegant literature, the Chinese swordsmen popular novel of twentieth Century emphasizes the depth of human nature. The image’s perceptual appearance and reason appearance are both described. Though liang yusheng’s novel inheriting tradition of "telling story", some of his characters’ human nature is also complex. Jinyong’s novel portrays human nature in the concrete. gulong’s novel explores the subconscious mind of Swordmen. Thus, literary image of swordmen pass through three phases.5. Chapter4:This chapter will focus on the aesthetic questions in the creative writing. the author talks about topics as following:transcendent world; Dualistic Patterns of good and evil Swordmen; Spiritualization、romanticization、entertaining of Martial Skills6. Conclusion:The author extends the discussion a bit further in this part, and the spiritual quality of Swordmen literature is discussed. The author also touches on the mission and limits in the reconstruction of Swordmen literature.