The Two Transnational Masters With Cross-Boundaries

Both the Chinese modern writer of Miao nationality Shen Congwen and the mainstream English writer Hardy in the 19th century are the local novels writers who hold the balance in the Chinese and the Western history of the literature. Their local novels describe the lost of humanity and morals in the historic course of the transformation from traditional society into industrial society, showing the strong attachment to the hometown and the criticism to the industrial civilization, so that their local novels can be of much high value for paralleling comparison study .The introduction of this article expounds the reason, the goal, the significance, and the present situation of the study. Based on the text, the first charter analyzes multi-voice parts existing among the society and the works of Shen Congwen and Hardy, which are the traditional agricultural rural society, degenerated village under the impact of and capitalist industrial civilization, as well as the urban civilization taken as the essential background reference system. The second charter contrastively analyzes the harmonious main voice part among their works, which is the similarities and differences of the description about the nature, the human feelings and human nature in the traditional agricultural rural society, in order to embody the difference between western and eastern culture and the characteristics of national culture as well, and to describe the wonderful spiritual home for human beings. The third charter analyzes the opposition and conflicts of primary- secondary voice part. In the secondary voice part, the writers both describe the disaster and tragedy, which has brought to the rural society by the capitalist industrial civilization. It is shown that the cultural personality of Shen Congwen and Hardy is deeply influenced by their hometown culture. They both have a strong attachment to the simple agricultural hometown, but under the impact of modern civilization, and with the consideration of double eye sights and value criterions, their local world presents a paradoxical and decentralized state, which makes the two writers doomed to be spiritual loafers. The fourth charter is mainly about the reflections on the multi- voice parts. The final salvation by Shen Congwen and Hardy manifests the difference between the tradition of eastern and western culture, but both filled with the consciousness of sufferings and the sincere humane concern. In addition, their local novels have displayed people's everlasting local mood and the homeland complex, which is of enlightenment to the modern society to a certain extent. Finally subtotal full text.With the contrast analysis, the goal of the dissertation is to analyze the two writers'thoughts on the complexity of the local world under the similar social historical background, the complicated connection between the ideal world and the experiential world of the writers, the problem of human civilization, moral violation, the puzzlement and salvation, so as to indicate that literature must focus on humans themselves as well as human's being, and what's more, only if based on national culture of one's own country, the works can be of special features.