The Revolutionary Writing Of "Seventeen Years" Rural Novels

The doctoral dissertation studys rural novels of the "17 years" from cultural perspective of "revolution" and discusses their gain and loss, combining the history of Chinese revolution and contemporary culture and the interpretation of some typical texts. Meanwhile, the dissertation considers how revolution produces a comprehensive and profound effect on internal and external space of literature in the "17 years" as discourse of power and political culture, and presents literary value and cultural features of revolution.The dissertation understands and uses "revolution" in three angles, which are Chinese revolution, revolutionary culture and revolutionization. Revolution is a sign of difference between native-soil novels and rural novels and has interactive relationship with native writing in rural novels of the "17 years". Under the revolutionary context of the "17 years", the rural novels bases on the theory of national character and reality, reaches integration of production mechanism by disciplined thoughts, institutionalized organization and public criticism, and takes class analysis and struggle consciousness as guidance and content of the writing. The factors determine the narration in rural novels of the "17 years" to be the process of construction of new revolutionary subject "peasant heroes" with revolutionary enlightenment, also the process of deconstruction of "middle figures" from creation to theory. The process is accompanied with the revolutionization of folk culture carried by peasants and native soil, which includes family ethics giving way to concept of the state, individualism submitting to collectivism, and heart of interests weakening in revolutionary morality. Finally after the revolutionary transformation, rural novels of the "17 years" shows different aesthetic features from native-soil novels:straight forward concept of time that replace the time cycle, space form in which landscape, genre painting and custom feelings broke and disappeared, and language practice with revolutionized "MAO style" and changing toward manner of peasants and spoken language.The dissertation considers it is necessary to put the research of rural novels of the "17 years" in the flow of modern native-soil novels. Revolution writes native-soil novels and turns them to be rural novels, and rural novels differ from native-soil novels for writing of revolution. Rural novels of the "17 years" are also native-soil novels, but the process of relationship between revolution and native soil determines their rebellion or return to the tradition of native-soil novels. Revolution is the core of their creation and research entrance, so they can be called "revolutionized native-soil novels".The name highlights the basic features of rural novels, shows the relationship between them and native-soil novels, and reveals unity of opposites between revolution and literature in modernity. Owing to the revolution's nature of modernity, the modern writing of native-soil novels sharpens contradictory movement of unity and fracture when launched as a whole and shows the characteristic of stages. To survey rural novels of the "17 years" from the perspective of revolutionary modernity, will reflect on revolution and integrate the description of history of Chinese literature in 20th century.