The Discussion About The Reportage Of History And Biography

Because its choice of historic topic provoked people's concern, and expedited by reality environment, the reportage of history and biography became species of the reportage that can't be neglected. This thesis tries to do a whole, macro analysis about the reportage of history and biography, and combs its track of development and background, and discusses aesthetic character, meaning and limitation of these texts.Besides conclusion, the thesis is divided into 4 chapters.Chapter 1: Introduction. This chapter discusses the research'background and actuality of the reportage of history and biography, and analyses the process of this the emergence and change of this concept. Besides, the connotation of the reportage of history and biography is defined and research'extension of this thesis is limited in this part.Chapter 2: The development and change of the reportage of history and biography. The reportage of history and biography was born in the New Era. In the late 30 years, because of influence of social environment and literary adjustment, it has experienced four stages of ferment and rise, development and change, prosperity and independence, drop and mature. This reportage inherited as well as changed the creating feature from former ones in every stage.Chapter 3: The aesthetic character of the reportage of history and biography. As a special variety in the reportage, the specificity of the historical biographic reportage mainly is its aesthetic character. The expression of its realistic spirit isn't direct like some reportage of describing the realistic topic, but indirect. Because of the tragic of history and enlightened consciousness of writers, the people and events in description are usually described tragic. The close connection between history and culture makes the text filled with a heavy cultural color. The length, depth and range of history request the huge space to be accepted, so the work's narration has the appearance of "epic". The existence and combination of these aesthetic characters cause the development and prosperity of the reportage of history and biography .Chapter 4: The meaning and limitation of the reportage of history and biography. Because of actual and artistic history writing, the reportage of history and biography not only provides a good path for us to know history, but also leaves precious historical data. Its great success enriched the creation of reportage, made the traditional reportage'theories change to an extent. Surely, there are exists some shortage and limitation of the truth and aesthetic appreciation in the reportage of history and biography.