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Illusion And Reality

Posted on:2004-07-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X H ZhongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360095452057Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Regards genius and beauty " convention" as a kind of literature motive, the thesis means to discuss love consciousnesses in the genius and beauty novels of "things focus on love " at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, discover these authors' puzzlement and choice in the cultural conflict of era, lie the ones in the novel developing history correctly .At first the paper studies the different culture purport about "romance" and "ethic" through analyzing typical texts and point out the culture ideal of daydream" of the authors while combining the two sides ; Then, through the detailed reading and the comparison of a large amount of texts ,takes two major narrations "wonderful love and encounter" and "romantic fortune in the world" to explain the realistic predicament of love consciousness .Thus the" beautiful woman of and gifted scholar dream" as the first love theme in the popular novel history exerts a far-reaching influence on Dream of the Red Chamber.Full paper is divided into two sections and an additional part.The first section explains the culture ideal of love consciousness in the typical texts of the genius and beauty novels, including two chapters.Chapter one: Through analyzing the four chapters of love in Yu Jiao Li and Ping Shan Leng Yan which are the original texts, explain the typical love model of the romantic novels. The interpretation will be clearer if connected with the "love" ideological trend after middle period of the Ming Dynasty and the current situation of the popular novels, when we keep trace back to the tradition.Chapter two: Hao Qiu Zhuan and Xing Feng Liu Zhuan qi represent the other type of genius and beauty novels which advocate rational principle of Confucian by theories of "gentlemen love beautiful girls" and "Confucian ethics is happy". By the comparison, we can grasp the different orientation of love consciousness in the culture transformation at the turning point from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty.The second section discusses the realistic difficulties of love consciousness in the changes of the novels. It includes two chapters.Chapter one: "Wonderful love and encounter" affected by the world situations showed desolate reality. We can master the core of culture tragedy by analyzing of beauty in classic text Jin Yun Qiao Zhuan.Chapter two: The model of "romantic fortunes in the world " formed under the influence of pornographic novels, manifests that the traditional ethic idea and male culture psychology restrained the writers to probed into the analyzes of love consciousness deeply. Kong Kong Huan summarized a general culture conclusion based on the motif of genius and beauty. The writer attempted to integrate the love consciousness in all kinds of deviant styles of the genius and beauty novels.Epilogue: Analyse the influence in Dream in Red chamber coming from the genius and beauty novels, we can comprehend the polysemic of the love of Jia Baoyu and Ling Daiyu which not only was similar with prototype of genius and beauty but also was exceeding. The love consciousness in Dream in Red chamber is exceeding because the writer was tried to undertake the ruthless world concealed in genius and beauty novels.
Keywords/Search Tags:The genius and beauty novels, illusion, love consciousness, romance, ethic, cultural conflict
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