The Research On Guo Moruo's Autobiographical Works During Transitional Period

Guo Moruo's Autobiography is a typical biography in the transitional period of Chinese modern biography. The four-volume oriental autobiography written from 1928 has integrated the genres of autobiography, diary, travel note and memoir. This autobiography has drawn lessons from western modern biography. Meanwhile, it has inherited the characteristics of historical and biographic literature in tradition, which have been extended and enriched with Guo's subject consciousness.Based on textual reading, this paper chooses Guo Moruo's Autobiography as the research object. With Chinese traditional biography as basic reference, this paper expounds the inheritance of traditonal biography and its ethnic characteristics from the perspectives of grand narration, veritable recording and "Chun-Qiu writing method"On this basis, this paper makes a discussion of literary characteristics of Guo's autobiography during the transitional period of Chinese modern biography with the subject consciousness as the expositive core. Centered on this autobiography's breakthrough of traditional biographies on content, form, and affective dimension, the exploration of its unique mental outlook and aesthetic tendency as a mixture of the spirit of ancient "Chinese historical biography" and the idea of western "human biography" is advanced. Moreover, the paper makes an effort to investigate its enlightening significance upon current literary creation by the analysis of the interaction between author and readers on Guo's autobiography with the approach of western Contract of Autobiography Theory.