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Appreciate Beauty The Value About The Chinese Modern Wuxia-Novel

Posted on:2007-05-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L F LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360212473371Subject:Aesthetics
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The development of modern wuxia-novel founds on the full inheritance from the tradition of pre-modern wuxia-novel; therefore it is needful to explore its origins in order to display its artistic development. At the same time, it was born in the special and complex of 20th century, and absorbed many nutrients with a kind of keen outgoing disposition. So it is indispensable to analyze this kind of cultural and literary environment. The modern wuxia-novel causes to surge again and again in 20th century, which proves it special aesthetics fully. To hold its aesthetics is the basis to define its aesthetic value. The figure of its readers is not the standard to measure its aesthetic value because appreciation is different from critique. Appreciation starts from individual propensity, and it likes for a kind of special aesthetic experience strongly, and many factors such as age, personality, experience and fashion will influent it. Critique needs to hold from many aspects of vertical comparison, horizontal comparison, many levels and many scopes. We measure the aesthetic value of modern wuxia-novel from critics not only needing to analyze the last change and development comparative to pre-modern wuxia-novel as vertical comparison but also to compare to other literary including popular literary and non-popular literary as horizontal comparison. Although we cannot use the standard of essence literary to popular literary, they are all literary and it is possible and necessary to compare. Meanwhile aesthetic value is embodied in artistic form and more in artistic content, therefore when we analyze and critic modern wuxia-novel we need both inner and outer considering. The first part of this essay explores the origins of Chinese wuxia-novel in order to discover the art developing of modern wuxia-novel, then expounds that the developing of wuxia-novel is basis on Chinese chivalrous culture in deep level.The second part expounds the inherent aesthetic value of modern wuxia-novel from the variety of artistic form and skill, the rich of text intent, the stereoscopic character, the modern chivalrous spirit and metaphor of all places in the country, then expounds its aesthetic function of many aspects and levels from aesthetic entertainment, aesthetic understanding and aesthetic portray.The third part defines the special aesthetic value of appealing to all from portraying aging literary environment and horizontal comparison founded last two parts. Its aesthetic value mainly embodies its moving towards to three"essence literary"standards of"standard of humanities value","historical standard"and...
Keywords/Search Tags:wuxia-novel, aesthetic value, popular culture
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