Discourse On Guo Shixing's Dramatic Works

Guo shixing, the particular person in China current theatrical fields since 1990s, whose works give rise to many criticisms from different aspects. Due to the confusion and conflict among the criticisms, it is necessary to conduct a comparatively comprehensive and external research.In the author's opinion, the different sides embodied in Guo shixing's works all include the characteristics of folk language. This paper will discuss the topic from four aspects as followed.Chapter One, start with Guo shixing's special origin and life experience, study the formation of his folk standpoint, and discuss the relationship between folk standpoint and object world in text.Chapter Two, study the characteristics of carnival drama and discuss the relationship between structure & function and central idea. Guo shixing's poetics is an expression of a vulgar, joking and folk literature style, which is a kind of carnival drama and includes two aspects, i.e. carnival drama structure and life ceremony's function.Chapter Three, discourse on two problems, one is to discuss the characteristics of Beijing words and its no meaning's nature; the other is to discuss the relationship between vulgar aesthetics and the general world view of"union of nature and human".Chapter Four, analyze the object world written by Guo shixing, and classify three specific worlds, i.e. idler world, pleasure & athletics world, and rock-bottom excretion world, all of which represent semantics.Guo shixing's drama destroy the"tradition", fling down a challenge to the conventional drama concept. His innovation in topic, poetics, language, aesthetics, etc. not only provides new reason for inditement, and brings new whether, but also proposes new task for drama's fundamental theory.