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New Conservatism And 1990's Literature

Posted on:2003-02-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J S LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360062486442Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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New conservatism, namely being cultural conservatism, is a kind important tidal current of idea and culture existing in Chinese Mainland 1990s.THe article has analyzed the embodiment,the cause of formation and t characteristics of cultural conservatism, and gave emphasis to its embodiment the 1990s' literature. Literary upsurges such as Rural literature,historical no\ and curtural prose display cultural conservatism's pervasion and influen relatively concentratively. This article unscrambled and interpreted the literature phenomenas and their typical writings over again. On rural literature t article takes Zhang Wei for example, and analyzed his typical works such "Jiuyue Yuyan" ^ "BoHui", and discussed his culture standpoints agaii modernity and for traditional agriculture curture. from 1980s to 1990s his ide had being changed markedly ,which is from criticizing culture to defendii culture. On historical novel the article takes Tang Haoming's " Zeng Guofan" ai Cheng Zhongshi's "Bai Luyuan" for example, and analyzes their identificatio with traditional culture personality, traditional morality and traditional religii culture, so their works completely differ from New Culture Movement of tl May 4th Movement of 1919 in culture standpoint. On culture prose this artic takes Yu Qiuyu for example, analyzing the thick recursive thoughts of culture his works, discussing his missing thetraditional culture deeply and crying for helplessly. The ending analyzes the social meanings of those works which ha the tendency of new conservatism. Firstly new conservatism is the reply for cris of human culture conscience in society's transition and most powerful moral for against society industrialisation. Secondly it is helpful in people's understandii traditional culture exactly, and offers the chance to rebulit new national cultu under current conditions, Finally it can get people being alert of the negati' factors and make up the faults in industrialisation.The whole article is divided into four parts, the first chapter is preface, tl second mainly explains the concept and sums up cultural conservatism's implii meaning, analyzing its causes of revival in 1990s, the third discusses cultur conservatism's pervasion and influence in culture, and the forth analyzes tl social meaning of the works whose authors tend to cultural conservatism.
Keywords/Search Tags:Cultural conservatism, Rural literature, Historical novel, Cultural prose, Significance
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