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Exposition On Shen Congwen's Tragic Consciousness

Posted on:2003-08-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z H LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360065456786Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Shen Congwen's novels possess unique artistic charm by its particular tragic atmosphere, evident tragic emotions and unspeakable tragic sentiment. This mainly benefits from his particular life experience, the consciousness of a "countryman", and the internalized and individualized tragic consciousness formed in the process of the territorialChu and Xian) cultural psychological inheritance . It is the particular tragic consciousness that accumulates in his depths of spirit and thought with great connotation, and evolved into a particular mode of thinking and language style, thus enabling him to understand and interpret life, humanity and cultural value in a unique perspective, and creating an original, poetic, mental, and tragic artistic expression.Shen Congwen integrates vague melancholy and individualized tragic consciousness into his novels naturally and consciously, and integrated emotional tragic consciousness into characters, plots, surroundings and narration, thus forming a delicate and innocent tragic style. Therefore, a striking lamenting beauty between solemnity and sadness becomes an important aesthetic connotation of Shen Congwen's novels.It is the strong and particular tragic consciousness that enhances thecomplexity, variety and profundity of Shen Congwen's novels, sublimates Shen Congwen's novels' artistic charm and realm. The emergence of tragic consciousness becomes the important aesthetic connotation of Shen Congwen's novels. Therefore, tragic perspective is a key to reading and understanding Shen Congwen's novels.Shen Congwen's internalized tragic consciousness with his unusual life, humanity and culture experiences is the important inheritance of Chinese modern literature in spirit and aesthetics. The unique style of Shen Congwen's novels enriches the tragic connotation of Chinese modern literature. It is just the tragic consciousness that erects a bridge between him and national feelings and the communication of ideas and thus novels becomes the existence of particular cultural value. On the one hand, Shen Congwen is not only the describer of "the World of West Xiari" in the traditional sense, on the other hand, his deep affection and tragic personal experience of life, humanity and culture has become the common wealth of the whole world.This article commences with the uniqueness of the forming of Shen Congwen's tragic consciousness, and goes on to analyze the specific expressions of tragic consciousness in novels and the formal characteristics of Shen Congwen's tragic style, for the purpose of probing the rich cultural and aesthetic connotation of Shen Congwen's novels from another perspective and interpreting the aesthetic motivation of Shen Congwen's novels' unique charm.
Keywords/Search Tags:Consciousness
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