On The Tragic Spirit In The Japanese Literature Of "Die For Love"

In 20th century literature and cultural studies in China, there lacks the study of the spirit of Japanese nation, especially their tragic spirit and tragic aesthetics. In the middle of 20th century, the books on Japan by Daijitao and Japanese by Jiangbaili are illuminative, and then in late 20 years, there published some works about Japanese Chadao, Huadao and architecture and so on while in the field of literature there are mainly translation works and a few books of theoretic study. However, there lacked works about Japanese aesthetics, particularly the ones that connect Japanese national spirit with tragic aesthetics. Comparatively speaking, western scholars have had wider and deeper study on Japanese culture and Japanese national spirit. Take American scholar Benny Dicks' chrysanthemum and sword and his study of Japanese cultural history for example, they exemplified a close study on Japanese national spirit and Japanese life, but there have been none of study on Japanese tragic aesthetics, and neither have we found any Chinese translations of such.This text studies the national spirit of Japanese people, especially the profound influence of its tragic spirit on its tragic literature from a special perspective of "die for love" in Japanese literature which can show the uniqueness of Japanese national tragic spirit, and thus lies the creativity of this text. This research can deepen the study on Japanese culture, especially its tragic literature, and promote the comparative study of oriental tragic aesthetics and western tragic aesthetics, or Chinese tragic aesthetics and Japanese tragic aesthetics.This text addresses this issue from three aspects:Firstly, it studies the essential characteristics of Japanese national spirit and its historic and cultural reasons. Under certain natural, geographic, social, cultural, and religious configuration, Japanese people formed the typical compound national character and its unique tragic spirit, i.e., two extremes: full of contradictions, but conciliable, which is very complicated with both good side and bad side, and which is pluralistic in stead of monistic, and which is sometimes antinomic and antitheses.Secondly, it analyzes the tragic stories of "die for love" in Japanese ancient literature and historic material: the severity of the tragic conflicts and of the heroes' tragic spirit; the ending with either or both parties' death; the mixed feeling of sublime and sadness, which conforms to the compound character of Japanese people.Finally, in the background of national culture, and compared with traditional tragedy, we can find that the aesthetic features, aesthetic idea, form and the reflected national cultural -psychological structure of Japanese modern tragedy of "die for love" are...