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The History Conception And Narration Of New-Historicism Novels

Posted on:2008-01-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H X ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215987649Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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New-historicism novels is an important literature phenomenon inthe late 1980s and early 1990s. Authors all cast their viewpoints to broadand deep historical space, forming personal multi-aspect description ofhistory and leading to heated comments on new historical story. Thispaper is to comb the historical conception and narrating characteristics ofnew historical story, then present the author's viewpoint. It is to spreadin the following aspects:Chapter one:Undoubtedly new historical story presents completelydifferent historical conception from traditional historical story, such asputting emphasis on inventing and coincidence of history, personalhistories, stress on civil stand and dialogue between history andnowadays and so on. The historical conception of new historical storydirectly influences historical narrating of new historical story.Chapter two:Personal historical demonstration. Traditional historicalstory presents the history which is known to all, such as the importanthistorical celebrities and events. While in the new historical story, it is thepersonal demonstration. This text characteristic mainly presents on theshift of solution of hero epic and angle of narration. New historical novelof female doctrine limits history in "the story in the room", typical modelrepresentative of personalizing historical narration.Chapter three:The civil stand makes open.After carefully examiningnew historical novel, it is likely to find out the politicized ideology isgradually replaced by the civil stand. This presents in two aspects: civilwords replace political power words and civil esthetics can make open.But civil culture and appreciation of beauty express huge inclusion,which shows in the complicated appearance of coexistence of good and evil, beautiful and ugly.Chapter four:Desire-rization history story. Most of the revolutionaryhistorical novels in 17-year-republic period are class-struggle storydeduction, while new historical novel has accomplished an overturingthat is from "all history is the class struggle history" to "all history is thedesire history". The new historical novel has found the substituting thingfor "class struggle", regarding "people's desire" as something that arousesdynastic changes and drives history to develop. New historical novel isfull of the desire-rization stories, revealing the root cause of historychanging is people's desire by desire-rization stories, and concentratingthe cognition to history on "human nature".Chapter five:Allegory-rization directing. Generally, critics believethat new historical novel emphasizes history randomness and contingency.As a matter of fact, part of new historical novel takes the history directingallegory-rization seriously, which is just opposite to contingency, at thesame time it happens to indicate that new historical novel creation doesnot follow the same pattern. History's destiny allegory-rization, lying indevelopment of some history phenomena only when one has no way toescape, it is not accidental, but with a causal relationship. Theallegory-rization of new historical novel presents the amalgamation ofembodied modernism with actualism appreciation of the beauty and arttechnique.
Keywords/Search Tags:New historical novel, new history doctrine, conception of history, history narration
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