A Study On The Contemporary Image Problem From The Image Of Yuhua's Novels

The image is an important concept in Chinese traditional literature theories,because it refers to the essence of the art.With the development of the times and changement of literature practice, it has neglectable significance in practice and theory to come to discuss image with the condition of the contemporary novel creation. This article selected the works of Yuhua which is the important representative of contemporary vanguard novel for study and try to have some demonstration and theorial discovery on image problem. The image theory has long history and has many relative discussion in Chinese literature theory. Although each theory is not consistent, traditional image theory has a basic characteristic,namely focus on the intention of feeling and view, and the ways that shape express meaning, etc. As a member of pioneer novel writer, Yuhua is outstanding in practical exploration on narration.His novels made aesthetic description about the world by means of particular point of view and distant tone, and made construction of aesthetic image in different novel narration. His novel image has the following character: The function of shape is obvious in the close fuse on the exhibit of image and narration.The narrative way of taking out subject's feelings made new problems in traditional image theories on feeling,however his novel images made the reader deep impression; The intentional narrative strategy which makes things unimportant gives readers different mental reaction when normal human is faced with violence or death,made reader fell strongly astonished and at loss at the same time they fell strong sense of vision, which has prominent aesthetic effect; The sign of the person image turns different from person creation of traditional novel which matches the logic of modernist;Yuhua 's symbolic technique realized the discovery of Wei which is the most deep aspect in image theories.This narrative technique has obvious experimental character in the aspects of the combination of image, moreover ,his narrative strategy and artistic technique makes his image combination dream and fluent. The successful trial of the image exhibit in Yuhua's novel has the following important significance:First, it demonstrates that the Chinese image theory has not lose the suggest significance when western creative technique makes much influence on Chinese contemporary novel creation. Second, it provides a referencable example for how to exhibit image in a novel in the context of contemporary Chinese culture. Third, vanguard narrative language will not hinder the exhibit of image, on the contrary, it may make the exhibit of image have special effect. Fourth, the traditional image theories emphasizes the combination of the" feeling" and the" shape", but in vanguard novel, the emotional factor of the" meaning" usually hides, and only can see the factor of the" image" . Yuhua's artistic practice well solves this self-contradict problem, which ask for more deeply study on the relation of the " idea" and " view" . Fifth, Yuhua'novel creation also makes a successful contribution on how to melt the philosophy thoughts to the image and provide the useful revelation.