The New Soul And Poetic Feeling Under Historical Coat

The Historical Novel, which has dual connotation spanned history and literature, connects these two fields perfectly. This special literary style takes on everlasting glamour. Basing on the May 4th Movement, the Chinese Modern Historical Novel is a new type of the novel styles and it is different from the Ancient Historical Novel in essence. This thesis tries to probe into the special characteristics of Chinese Modern Historical novel from its Modernity.The Chinese Modern Historical Novel has realized the rebellion in the traditional history text and literary work of historical theme under the inspiration of the Enlightenment, the patriotism expressed, and the change of the writers' active attitude in modern literature. The authors concentrate their main emotion on the works besides the historical facts. They fabricate and rewrite history boldly; penetrate into the mind of historical characters to portray carefully; lay stress on the artistic conception and poetic expression; make the history and the reality mix together. It opens a way for modern fresh air to blow into the relative closing historical space. Many characteristics of New Historical Novel, which emerged half a century after, can be seen in Chinese Modern Historical Novel. The two kinds of novel's correspondence spans time and space .Thus, the Chinese Modern Historical Novel has the modern brand-new soul inside the historical coat. Meantime, another unforgettable character of Chinese Modern Historical Novel is the poetic feeling. Before we used to focus on the parable but it is not the only characteristic of Chinese Modern Historical Novel, for they present poetic feeling both in emotional and reasoning works. Moreover, it is a pioneering discovery in Modernity of Chinese Modern Historical Novel.