On "the Wolf" Image In The Chinese Literature At The Early 21st Century

Based on the analysis of more than ten works, such as Missing the Wolf, Wolf Totem, Wolf Disaster and Tibetan mastiff, this paper has summarized the characteristics of'the wolf'image, and grasped the variation of'the wolf'image in contrast with the literary in 1980's and 1990's. Meanwhile, it attempted to explore the reasons from the perspective of the social background and the cultural impact.The article is divided into three parts:Part one: Introduction. It reviews'the wolf'image in the literary history, on this condition, to observe how it changed. Also, it makes a retrospection on the the recent study of'the wolf'image, and points out the main objective of this paper, one of which is to extract'the wolf'from the study of animal novels and ecological literature, and give it independent aesthetic significance, and the other is to break the limitations of the analysis on single works, and make a whole observation on'the wolf'image in the contemporary literature.Part two: Main body. Chapter one make Wolf Totem as the main entry point, so as to collate the invisible meaning characteristics such as intelligent, tenacious, and free which the'the wolf'image was given, in contrast with'the dog'and'the sheep'. Chapter two mainly discusses the variation of'the wolf'image in the recent 20 years. In the 1980's which made widely known humanitarianism,'the wolf'is appeared lonely as being the oposite to the human; In the 1990's when the society was facing reforming time, two kinds of writing manners of'Dancing with Wolves'and'Confronting Wolves'was appeared, and'the wolf'reposed the writers'different implication; To the beginning of the 21st century, more anxiety about the ecology and thinking about the humanity has been reposed on'the wolf'. Chapter three trys to explore the reasons why'the wolf'appeared frequently: On the one hand, facing the ecological and the spiritual crisises, the literature has admitted'the wolf'in the conflict and adaptability between Tradition and Modern, on the othe hand, the influence from social pop culture cannot be neglected. Part three: Conclusion. At the beginning of the 21st century, the Chinese writers lead'the wolf'into the literary with the intention alerting the current situation of the unbalanced ecology and the humanity disassimilation. However, it has been being accompanied with the impetuous and noise'wolf'culture, which is ought to be introspected by the literature.