A Comparative Study Of Shen Congwen And Modern Chinese Local Writers

The study of Shen Congwen has always occupied a prominent position in the study of modern and contemporary Chinese writers,especially since the 1980s,it has become increasingly heated.His works have exerted an important influence on the development of Chinese literature,such as local literature,urban literature and "root-searching literature" since the new era.This paper centered on Shen Congwen's literary world,select a few modern Chinese literature,especially literary writers such as Lu Xun,Wang Zeng-qi,Han Shaogong,Jia Pingwa's,a comparative study of literary writing,explore the vernacular literature represented by Shen Congwen writers such as in the path of the history of literature,so as to expand and enrich the connotation of modern Chinese literature.It not only makes us understand and grasp Shen Congwen's literary contribution and peculiarity more clearly,but also has important significance to the study of rural literature and modern Chinese literature.Based on the above considerations,this paper is composed of introduction,five chapters and conclusion.The introduction part starts from the present situation of Shen Congwen's research,and makes a certain review,review and reflection on the relevant research achievements in the past.Based on several related topics in the study of Shen Congwen in the past,this paper makes a comparative study of relevant writers from both horizontal and vertical levels,attaches importance to the integrity of Shen Congwen's literary tradition,and hopes to explain the local,national and modern features of Shen Congwen's literature more comprehensively.The first chapter summarizes Shen Congwen's literary contribution and its uniqueness.In the aspect of literary creation,Shen Congwen's literary genres are diverse and numerous.In the aspect of literary theory,Shen Congwen actively participated in several important literary controversies,which produced important influence.He also published a lot of impressionistic aesthetic criticism and essay criticism.It has become a "unique existence" in the history of modern Chinese literature because of its complex literary thought,tortuous literary path and uncertain literary evaluation of "cold" and "hot".The second chapter discusses the local literature and lyric tradition of Shen Congwen and Lu Xun.An analysis of Shen Congwen's and Lu Xun's literary writing from the perspective of modern China's local culture.The two modern literary writers represent and lead the aesthetic pursuit of realism and romanticism in rural literature respectively,but they can find the resonance of "sadness" in the proposition of lyric novels.With the help of the "literary world" of "Xiangxi" and "Luzhen" respectively,the two modern writers imagine the appearance of rural China,showing the diversity of rural China at the same time in different Spaces.The third chapter analyzes the literary world of "folk" written by Shen Congwen and Wang Zengqi with the theory of folk narratology.The two writers,both teachers and students with deep roots,pay special attention to folk culture,which nourishes literature and themselves,making the two writers have achieved a lot in "folk" narration.Different folk cultural nutrients have created two different literary worlds in the works of the two writers:one is the barbaric Xiangxi world of the divine nature,the other is the tender secular world full of human nature.Shen Congwen and Wang Zengqi,who returned to the "folk",have left a series of impressive group portraits of folk figures for modern Chinese literature with different positions and attitudes.The fourth chapter discusses Shen Congwen and Han Shaogong who take Western Hunan as literary space.Shen Congwen and Han Shaogong occupy an important position in the two literature fields,which are the continuation and development of modern Chinese literature from local literature to root-seeking literature.They were nurtured and influenced by the cultural spirit of Xiang and Chu,and placed their literary ideal by virtue of western Hunan,which built a bridge between the native place and seeking roots.As the transitional works in the middle and late period of their literary creation,the extracts of their literary essays about Hunan,Sketches of Travels in Hunan,Western Hunan and Shannan and North of Water,have reflected the literary practice of the two generations of writers about the local land and the search for roots to a certain extent.The fifth chapter takes Shen Congwen and Jia Pingwa as the comparison object to expatiate the development and change of modern rural literature and the significance of ethnographic novel paradigm to rural literature from the perspective of literary anthropology.Both Shen Congwen and Jia Pingwa held a critical attitude towards modern urban culture to some extent,including questioning and reflection on commercialization and modern civilization,imagining the fusion of traditional culture and modern culture,and the difference between the literary world and the real world,which concealed their local consciousness.Through writing across time and space,they revealed some normal and dynamic laws of vernacular literature.On the basis of the above discussion,the conclusion further points out the common points of Shen Congwen and other classic writers,so as to deepen the interactive relationship between Shen Congwen and rural literature.For modern Chinese literature,the appearance of "vernacular" has injected a new aesthetic space into it,and has left a strong mark in the history of literary writing since the 20th century.Litterateers represented by Lu Xun,Shen Congwen,Wang Zengqi,Han Shaogong and Jia Pingwa observed,discovered and explained different aspects of China with their own unique local consciousness.Such an attempt not only expands the scope of Shen Congwen's research,but also has a certain value in understanding rural literature and even discovering the"Chinese experience" of modern Chinese literature.