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Countryman's Character In Wang Luyan's Novels

Posted on:2011-06-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332461613Subject:Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Under Lu Xun's guiding, telling homeland was a very attractive topic in the early 1920s, the local theme enters the modern novel domain massively, becomes one of the important theme of literature creation in this period. A set of young writers from the countryside to the urban brought the modern horizon which obtained from the city, used the recall way to recover the country style and made a rational judgment to the block rural literature.Wang Lu Yan is one of the rural literature novel writers emerged in this turbulent period. As writer who has a goal of enlighten, Wang Lu Yan studied to Lu Xun positively, located his novel creation's objective to awake countryman's self-liberation consciousness, to enlighten countryman to struggle for breaking old conception and creating new thinking. Through choosing the special local region culture, the common social practice folk culture, the local character and style in Eastern Zhejiang Province, formed countryman's unique disposition, presented conservative, ignorant, selfish, narrow and so on dispositions to readers. His novel truly reflected countryside and farmer's living condition from the 1911 Revolution to the Sino-Japanese War, and also presented the changing of the three historical periods and the historical development of country lively presented to readers, let people in the Eastern Zhejiang Province forever integrate to the vast Chinese literature history. Wang Lu Yan penetrated the country perform into countryman's characteristic, let us penetrate this phenomenon to discover the countryside essences, make people think deeply.Wang Lu Yan mainly divides countryman's disposition to different disposition in the three historical period backgrounds. First is countryman's disposition under traditional culture. Countryman's disposition in this period is similar to other rural novel writer wrote to countryman's disposition, they were numbness and ignorance under several thousand year feudal tradition rule. In the self-sufficient block space, they were both simplicity, honor, natural and selfish, narrow, feudal. Second is countryman's disposition under external cultural. In this period because Ningbo more and more becoming the economical exchange compact district, Western industry and the culture more and more spread to the countryside, causes the shock to the country's economy and the thinking of countryman and their thinking was converting. They excluded to the new style thinking instinctively or received Regardless of the pros and cons, and under the Western civilization's stimulation they were even more advocating to the Mammonism and so on. Third is countryman's disposition in war. Along with Japanese forces' aggression, the country suffered a disastrous attack, the ethnic conflict was rising, this time countryman displayed their strength fully. Countryman's disposition was no longer in the criticize status, Wang Lu Yan was sympathy to the countryman who suffered bitterness, and also appreciated to their tenacity and resistance. And Wang Lu Yan represented countryman's disposition mainly used custom description, psychological description and satire critic to implement.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wang Luyan, countryman, disposition, nostalgia
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