On Nostalgic Narration In Feiming's Bridge

In the preface to 'The Anthology of Feiming's Novels, Wang Zenqi comments, "[Feiming's works] is like a stream of undercurrent, which may, one day, spew above the surface ground." In the new period, many writers who were once neglected by the masses one after another regained their due attention in the field of literature research. Feiming, too, seems to gradually gain the favor of both the readers and researchers. In Literature Review of Researches on Feiming, Chen Jianjun comments, "the value of Feiming's novels does not lie in its contents, but in its 'meaningful forms'." As a complex as well as independent spiritual individual, what is hidden under the unique forms and structures of Feiming's novels is, in fact, his complex and meticulous spiritual ideology. Starting from the research on Feiming's spiritual world by introducing his unique nostalgic narration structure, the present paper sets to reveal how an independent and original writer manages to come to terms with the perplexity as well as the division of words and ideology in the literary context, which is also a vivid demonstration of the impotent and dispossessed plight that modern intellectuals are generally in face with.There are five parts in the present paper in all. The introduction part first introduces the idealist attempt that Feiming makes to pursue composing individuality and spiritual support in a given times, which is completely embodied in the nostalgic narration of Bridge. Then it makes a definition of the significance scope of nostalgic narration and the main features of the nostalgic narration of Bridge as well as a detailed explanation of the phenomenological and narratological significances of Feiming's nostalgic narration. What follow is a reference to the organization of the thesis as well as a brief introduction to a couple of narratological terms.By focusing on the analysis of the story in the beginning of Bridge, Part One expatiates on Feiming's world view of viewing the world in distance when carrying out his nostalgic narration. The analysis of the representation of such a world view is combined with psychology as well as with Feiming's texts.Part Two analyzes the features of the narrator, the development of narration and narrative awareness in nostalgic narration from the theoretical perspective of narratology, so as to reveal Feiming's confusion and uneasiness in a state of narrative plight and expressive impotency.By analyzing the Utopian environment that Feiming constructs in his nostalgic narration, Part Three sets to point out the purposeful environment construction and unavoidable and inconceallable division, which is a consequence of the loss of the last spiritual shelter.The conclusion part focuses on both a horizontal and a vertical interpretation of the significance of nostalgia, so as to prove the modern context feature which the significance of Feiming's nostalgia bears. It also points out that the interpretation of nostalgic narration connects overt expression to potential ideology, which provides a complex form of presentation for the writer's complex ideology.