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The Research On Cheng Xianghe's Novels

Posted on:2011-11-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:G Y ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330338982994Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In the history of Mordern Chinese Literature, Chen Xianghe is no doubt a modern novelist who is unique personality and increasingly concerned. His novel development from Romanticism to Realism, from childishness to maturity, showing a significant stage. He took the intellectual life as theme and shew their spirit. His novel's result focus on the sentimental novel and historical novel. This article mainly discusses his novels from the performance-value of thinking and form. Chen Xianghe early novels show a unique romantic-style, through the hard life of education, he promptly adjust the art-pursuit. He got rid of the sentimental mood and turned to realism. He used realistic-tone to enhance the thought of the social life, which made his novels behave more depth and intensity. In the novel-creation, except for Lin Ruji and Yang Zhensheng's influence, he was also influenced by Yu Dafu's sentimental novel and Lu Xun's writing skills, which made his novel show a different style. He learned techniques of Western modernism, but also attach importance to the Chinese literary tradition of lyricism, which makes his novels show strange colors and deep lyricism. His sentimental novel depicts educated youth came up loneliness because of love and personal ideal's failure. This loneliness is not only the psychological characteristics of fiction figure, as well as the general emotional- experience of modern writers on May 4th. Under the encouragement of"Hundred Flowers"policy, Chen Xianghe used a personalized narrative to create historical novel. From the perspective of his personal feelings, he described Tao Yuanming and JiKang's loneliness, helplessness and desiring for spiritual freedom's emotion in the tumultuous years, which to express the situation life and personal discourse of contemporary intellectual. Although his historical novels were wrongly criticized in that year, his personalized-narrative works demonstrated unique art-character in the contemporary literature. His personalized history-narrative not only revealed the existence of the literature independence, but also revealed the richness-existence of"17-year"literary narrative.
Keywords/Search Tags:Chen Xianghe, loneliness, sentimental novel, historical novel
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