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Plight And Development Of Chinese Science Fiction--From The Perspective Of Western Congeneric Writing

Posted on:2007-07-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185458680Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Science fiction is an important genre of popular literature. It pays attention to vast influence that science advancement brings to human being, and has larruping character. Compare with mainstream literature, it has a powerful and unconstrained imagination and free writing fashion; Compare with other popular literature, science fiction considers more realistic problem by image-building and narration. Today, with gradual amalgamation between elegance literature and popular literature, science fiction is the best embodiment of them. Science fiction is a genre that can inspire our interest to the future, and widen our breadth of mind. It is the embodiment of people's exploring mentality.Chinese science fiction came into being with influence of western science fiction, and went through 100 years. Now it is in crossroad from stagnancy to prosperity, and singleness to multiplicity. With development of science fiction writing and increase of readers, relational theory study is deficient. Especially in China, study of science fiction is in fringe status all the time. Forgone reviews pay more attention to analysis of concrete works, but there is a lack of macroscopically eyeshot.From the angle of modernity, the paper analyses appearance and development of Chinese science fiction under the background of western science fiction. Modernity and science fiction have consanguineous relations. Especially in China, science fiction has illumination and retrieval color from beginning to end in particular age background and modernity aspiration, which hinders development of Chinese science fiction. On the basis of it, the paper compares Chinese science fiction with western's: What's the difference between them? What's the reason of it? How does Chinese science fiction choose distinctive road? How will development prospect of Chinese science fiction be? Therefore, the discussion of it has realistic sense in adjusting direction and confirming some problem of science fiction.The paper includes four chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the explanation and background of science fiction, and comes down to the definition, function and developing skeleton. And the paper makes use of modernity as theoretic background to analyze the relation between modernity and science fiction; Chapter 2 compares science fiction between China and Occident, expounds different visage of science fiction in...
Keywords/Search Tags:Science Fiction, Modernity, Comparison
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