On Death Writing Of Shen Congwen's Novels

Death is the problem that suspended on everyone's head, and it can not be neglected by everyone. It opens the door of mankind's most abundance feelings, at the same time, it stimulates the pursuit of survival value in each person's heart. As to the writers who write for the purport of the true human nature, facing death, they have more subtle feelings than average people.Among the writers who attempt to find the essence of life and the true meaning of human nature from death, Shen Congwen's writing and thinking about death is very worthwhile to explore. Facing death, he had an intuitive perception from own experience, but also the speculative philosophy from the spirit. Such a multi-dimensional world Exists in the literary worl which is constructed by the writing material. Therefore, this research is based on Shen's novels as the carrier, from his portrayal of death and thinking in the search for both individual and national character of his death awareness. Specifically, the research from the following aspects to be explained:Firstly, starting from the text as a basis for the appearance of a preliminary interpretation. In other words, it is the analysis of Shen Congwen's novel forms of death. Then the paper will find the different attitudes toward death from different narrative. And then, the paper trys to analyze the images that are of related images associated with death. Then that, in the face of death, he has less anger than his contemporaries, and puts more efforts in pursuit of love and beauty, human depression and poetry.The second part, following the above context of text analysis, the paper try to analyze the aesthetic characteristics in shen's novels. Firstly, explore the emotional beauty in face to the death, which is the aesthetics of depression. Secondly, in the further analysis of the aesthetic, shen put love and death together, letting the dead get sublimation in love and beauty. Finally, Shen dilute the dark color of death, After a deliberately aesthetic treatment, in a subtle language of moderation into the terror of death faint melancholy.The third part is the analysis of deep meaning of Shen's death writing, which has three meanings:the first is the direct ideological sense of death, which is to say that death is a plain sad; Secondly, in the further dimension of life, in the face of death, he learned camlly positive; Finally, at the philosophical level, he believed that death is the confirm of individual being.Finally, tracing the origin of shen's awareness of death, which mainlyinclude three aspects:the infiltration from magical culture in chu, the legendary life which is associated with death and the influence from Western culture.