Create History And Consumer Literature

Er Yuehe and his"Emperor Series"has evoked story repercussions among the readers ever since it was published on mid-80s. The work won an unprecedented success, further more, its successful connecting with the TV play mad him even more well-known and gained both wealth and fame. The novel got a broad mass of readers from both home and abroad, and the publish have created a new records, which leads to a Er Yuehe phenomenon.The success is by no means an isolated case. It is sure that this is benefited from his hard work and subjective effort of the author, but what's more important is that the novel catered to the necessary tendency of the popularity of historical novels in the new trend of social thought and the new tide of culture. Therefore, this article aims in analyzing the relationship between the his work and present cultural environment, moreover, define and criticize his work, footing from the development of the historical novel. The article observes author and his work from a brand new angle of post contemporary concept, brings them within the macroscopic background of the consumer society and mass culture, inquires into the unique historical concept of the creation of the novel and makes some helpful analysis and draws lessons from the cultural phenomenon.This article contains three parts, including introduction, the body and conclusion. The first part introduces the post contemporary concept of Michelle Focke and takes"Lecture Room"as an example, discusses the popularity of art in detail and point out a series cultural phenomenon that is becoming boisterous with the help of the media, shows cultural background of current consumer society. Whereas"Er Yuehe"belongs to the typical success of the popularity of the art. The first chapter of the body deeply analyses the historical concept and creation from the following four aspects: doubt towards to the people, according to the creation of the image of Emperor Yong Zheng. The author did his best to play up the hard work, competent and intelligence cost, and created a hard working, resolute and courageous"reformer emperor". Also, fabricated the end of his dying from incest. He put his understanding towards life and society into himself, not rapidly adhere to the historical prejudice and built a special"Zone of history", The"Emperor Series"abandoned the historical view of rigid class struggle, pointed out the meaning of"the brilliant of the setting sun"of the"Trilogy of the setting rosy clouds". He is faithful to the reality of the history, strongly applied colors to the tragic destiny of Wu Liyou and Wu sidao, who were both honesty and talented intellectual person. The post contemporary system subverted the reasonism and general narration, succeeded with detailed narration. In the three emperor novels, by the description of"Gui Jv Cao", the relationship between the description of"Deng Xia Hei", Er Yuehe sets forth his views to the course and cause of the Manqing Dynasty's heading for its destruction, which indicates that the feudal dynasty can't escape from its fatal ultimately. He also discusses that the essence of post contemporary and materialism historical view is just identical, the former is helpful supplement of the latter. Whereas the historical novels written by him just properly embody the relationship of the two point of view.The second chapter of the body begins with his novels catering to the features of the consumer social culture, expounds the point from four different aspects. Firstly, it talks about the difference between traditional way of receiving literature, reading and consuming. After the punishment of the series about emperors of Qing dynasty, the reaction of mass media and entertainment field promoted continuely, it is Er Yuehe's view of literature and way of writing determined his popularity among the current society. Secondly, the culture consuming of the society leads to the changes of the artist's attitudes towards writing, the approaching of the consuming society is a reasonable result of the transform from contemporary to post contemporary, Popular literature writer formed a kind of adaption and assimilating relationship with the consuming society on the ground of his born-to-be emotion with common people. And that's why his work is widely loved by the people. In order to fit the public's reading and appreciating habbit, Er Yuehe chose to use the form of"chapters", and focused his talent in describing various kind of common wishes that are strongly attracting for the general public, showing us an extensive knowledge of medical science, chess art, astronomy, geography, eighty diagram structure, etc, which makes the work more interesting and worth of reading.Thirdly, the public literature builds up a pattern of"ordinary narration", the daily routine is brought into the field of art. In the novels of Er Yuehe, the life of emperors is more like our daily life, their characters are obviously communized, which can be seen from the description of Emperor Qianlong. The writer described the emperor as an ordinary person from a different angle, which made the emperor not only solemn but also had a color of common people.Fourthly, the mass media provided a motive force to the popularity of Er Yuehe's work. As the most powerful media, the television subverted the dominant status of traditional literature. The cooperation of literary work and TV movies became the catalyst of the increase of the publish and wide effect of Er Yuehe's work. The"emperor series"won a larger amount of readers and a more powerful influence after the propaganda of the media. After the analysis of the effect of mass media, the writer lays stress on introducing several main characters from Yong Zheng Dynasty, including the actors'acting, the art effect of the TV play, the thought of the current society that is showed by the novel.The conclusion stresses the two causes of Er Yuehe's historical novels'wide social influence again. The first one is his unique point of view towards history, the second one is the work's catering to the way of cultural consuming. It attached great importance to the profound cause of the success of Er Yuehe's work, that is the united cultural background, the increase of public's aesthetic appreciation, the popularity of mass media, etc, all of the above items lead to the big success of Er Yuehe.