On The Style Of Lu Xun And Zhou Zuoren's Prose

Prose is the conveyance of the writer's living experiences and inner feelings, which places particular emphasis on the expression of individual motions and thoughts.This article will explain Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren's prose with stylistics,study the corresponding relation between the speaking pattern and the writer's spiritual structure by the media of observation on the different way they organizing their prose.Lu and Zhou's prose share some characters in common in appearance, such as the personalized linguistic system including classical Chinese,spoken Chinese, dialects and colloquial isms, the pursuit of succinctness and refined and sophisticated taste of spoken style, the display of daily life, the implicit and indirect way of express ing, the chatting prose and the creation of the free spoken style with no structure(personalized spoken style in essence)etc. There are also some differences in their organization. Abundance & change and unification & simplicity are the main difference in their whole literary style.Lu's prose consists in the modern European artistic skills whereas Zhou's mainly the Chinese traditional ones.The complexity of Lu and Zhou's prose reflects the complexity of themselves. Many sub-style of their prose give a mirror of their spiritual structure.Most of Lu's contradiction came from the real struggle whi le Zhou's was a war of himself, showing a typical mentality of the second son. Lu's soldier complex and Zhou's tecluse complex have affected their writing style of prose. A series of images representtheir different living patterns, existing experiences and attitude on life.Lu and Zhou's powerful psychological structure of cognition based on their profound knowledge and free wide acceptive mentality has finished the construction of their varied styles of prose.The open era has brought them open mind. Lu and Zhou have made ful 1 use of the prose's flexibility and the speciality of freedom, having real ized the communication of each style and completed the innovat ion and creation of Chinese modern prose by which building the big structure of dialogue including the dialogue between prose and other literary styles, the interior talk of the writer with himself and the prose with readers.With the modern style of prose,Lu and Zhou have expressed the modern awareness of individual's loneliness and consciousness of transition. The cultural significance of their prose lies in the selective absorption in the beneficial culture all through the world, the advocation of science, reason and other modern spirits, the pursuit of freedom, width and broadness of individual's spirit and the thinking about the final meaning of people's existing. Meanwhile, their spirits and thoughts have been poured into the prose which has recorded their spiritual journey and shown a kind of magnificent atmosphere. Lu and Zhou have found the way of modernization, nationalization and personalization of the style of the Chinese modern prose...