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The Folklore Beauty Of Zhao Shuli's Novels

Posted on:2007-12-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185461615Subject:Literature and art
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Zhao Shuli's novels are very famous in China. Many scholars research his novels from many different perspectives. But few scholar researches his novels from aesthetics of folklore.Folklore has great significance for Zhao Shuli's novels. From aesthetics, there are mainly three aspects:1, the folklore composes the spirit beauty of Zhao Shuli's novels. As a typical quality, folklore spirit deeply influences Zhao Shuli and his writings. Then Zhao knew himself more clearly and understood how to create the novels those for farmers. Zhao Shuli made the folklore spirit and his novels together by practicing, and the folklore spirit became reconciled with the new spirit of "五四". Finally Zhao found his own way to write novels for farmer and struggled for farmer's rights in society.2, the folklore things influence Zhao Shuli in particular writing. Folklore things make a large space for his free imagination and it is mainly source of Zhao Shuli inspiration. Meanwhile, this kind of novels has a special humor from farmers. It's popular in countryside and loved by farmers. The estrangement between literature and farmers disappeared.3, in every particular novel, the folklore compose a novel from three aspects. First, folklore make a space that can desalinate the times background. Second, the plot conflicts are caused by folklore contradictions. Third, as a common power, folklore completes the personage's characters and makes resonance.4, because of Zhao Shuli's character and his pursuit of literature, the folklore became hardly grasp in his writing. Then his free writing became formal and formulaic. His realism makes a contradiction with the folklore's romantics. And he never resolves this contradiction.The purpose of this paper is to give some advices for the creation of countryside novels. Now, the creation of countryside novels is in a hard space. It needs helps from theories. Although the discussion of folklore beauty, I hope that can make a new space for the writing of countryside novels.
Keywords/Search Tags:Zhao Shuli, Folklore, Folklore Spirit, Folklore Beauty
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