Exploring And Speaking Of Human Nature

Yan Geling is one of the most famous female writers in the field of Chinese new literature.Her novels are popular among readers because of their rich and profound connotation,flexible and diversified writing techniques,and delicate and fresh language.At the same time,with her many works being adapted into film and television works,her popularity is getting increasing.Compared with contemporary writers,her writing style is unique.From the perspective of women,her revelation of human nature is very sharp and profound.The female and motherhood consciousness is highlighted,which often refer to the hidden and weak point of the human soul,thus it is shocking.Meanwhile,being open-minded,she holds universal compassion and sympathy for human suffering,which in turn makes her works full of humanity and warmth.Yan Geling pursues the innovation of novel style through seeking change and new ideas.Each of her novels is imprinted with stylistic experiments and explorations.Her diverse style reveals the infinite possibilities.Her novels can be divided into different styles from the perspective of stylistics.Of course,different scholars have different classification criteria and methods.Based on the fictional stylistic theory,beginning with Yan Geling’s novel text,proceeding from the style,structure,narration,language and other stylistic factors,the thesis systematically outlines the stylistic features and diverse existing forms through many case analysis of novel texts.According to the content,the style of Yan Geling’s novels can be classified into epic style and female style.Her novel creation pursues epic characteristic.We can catch her aesthetic pursuit from her first novel--a woman’s epic.This kind of novel features rich life,long history span,many characters and story twists.Her work permeates a strong female consciousness,focusing on female’s living state,destiny,experience,spiritual world and so on.In the novel,she has created a series of female characters such as Fusang,Xiaoyu,Duohe,Xiaohuan,Wang Putao,Tian Sufei,Mei Xiaoou,He Xiaoman,Xiao Suizi,Zhang Beibei,etc.,and made a profound reflection and analysis for the women’s living circumstances,which made her a female writer in a strict sense,and her novels are the female novel model to some degree.The unique "Yan Geling style" comes from her epic character,female consciousness,various narrative techniques,rich images and flexible language.According to plot clues or expression methods,Yan Geling’s novels can be classified into biography,legend,free association,quasi-detective,symbolic fable,etc.,and some texts cover multiple stylistic features at the same time.She has transformed and developed the existing literary styles,which makes these styles in a new way.Based on her persistent style innovation,exploration and experiment,her novel presents a variety of artistic style.Compared with contemporary Chinese writers,her novel features are more outstanding.Compared with several overseas Chinese writers and contemporary mainland writers’ novels,her stylistic features are more prominent,which reveals her superb stylistic mastery.If Zhang Ling,Mo Yan,Wang Anyi,Han Shaogong and other writers have their own style,it is self-evident that Yan Geling has her own style.Her various attempts to novel styles and unique style formation are closely associated with her humanity exploration,world outlook,scriptwriter identity,commercial writing.In short,the innovative pursuit of novel style is an important feature of Yan Geling’s novel,which is worth studying.