A Critical Study Of Wolf Totem

Wolf Totem came out in 2004. Since the publication of the novel, there have been about one hundred research papers and professional articles, which focus on the studies of this novel, and the relative reports in newspaper must exceed this figure. Among them, there are about twenty professional and academic theses published in various core journals, and seventy less important papers published in various academic journals. These papers had made a multiple discussion from the perspective of Eco-criticism, novels interpretation, or totem culture. There are also some tracking reports, and some feedback concerning Wolf Totem, which definitely should not be ignored in the critical studies of Wolf Totem.Through these criticisms, we could find that: although the issues discussed in these critical articles have covered a broad dimension and touch a great many diverse subjects, these studies obviously conflicted with each other. It is these criticisms that precisely constitute aesthetic phenomenon and the integrity of this novel Wolf Totem. Therefore, the criticism of Wolf Totem on the one hand has completed the analysis of works, and on the other hand more importantly is that we can explore new ideas through the analysis and studies of these literary criticisms.Wolf Totem is a novel closely associated with the issue concerning the non-rational of human nature and primitive nature.The criticism about this novel has received a great attention. This is gradually reduced to explore the nature of human nature. Although many critics argue that it is difficult to accurately and precisely classify Wolf Totem as a certain style of novel, no one could deny that this novel definitely has its own characteristics, including its strong artistic effect and wide-implication of life. And in terms of the essence of human nature, in fact, we have human nature - life of the non-rational nature study. The phenomenon should not remain in the surface level, but should seek its"attitude"behind the popular.Secondly, the novel Wolf Totem, also studies from the perspective of ecological interpretation, and tries to study the complex relationship between a literary man and the earth, and the other aspects between the intricate biological relationships, which have also become the main direction of this criticism. Many commentators believe that this is such a best-selling book, with its nuanced description of the ecological, biological central interlocking chain inseparable. They also comment that the book in the vast Mongolian steppe background, staged legendary ecological story is one of the few recent literary histories with ecological significance of the best-selling novel. However, this literary criticism and other ecological literary criticism as others, has a theoretical flaw, and it is not able to better reflect the history and dialectical view. Whether or not from the value of the methodology, or the ecological literature from the perspective of the Wolf Totem, the study is still quite of Ambiguity. It is too stressed work ecological significance. However, no matter what kind of literary work Wolf Totem is, the studies of this novel complete with the ecological significance of scientific literature on the nature of the difference between them. Moreover, these ecological studies are done from the perspective of the comments to force people to be aware of the impact and the ecology of the environment. These studies are totally discussed from the person and the natural dualism, which is undesirable. Besides, the novel Wolf Totem also causes a great attention, for it touches another significant topic. It is the totem of the Chinese image of a"dragon"and"wolf". These two images are the more advanced civilization appeared in farming or nomadic civilization, and becoming more powerful. These tow images have been kept the same in several thousand years of Chinese civilization. But the author has launched question, for the author of the novel uses the dualistic view of history and so he was criticized by many scholars. Researchers pointed out that from many of the history of civilized standards the criticism of Wolf Tote has some problems, and believed that there is a certain kind of confusion in existence in the cultural dimension of the novel. They thought that it is very unscientific to use the sheep and wolves to classify the civilization of history. Although we are not historians, and we could not only infer the origin from the real totem, the idea has gotten a great attention since the period of the introduction of modern"nation-state Narrative"into China on May 4. This idea has been concerned by many contemporary critics, and the phenomenon itself is worthy of more academic research on Wolf Totem as a typical, in-depth study. Finally, the publication of this novel Wolf Totem, as well as on the issue of"popular"has been described as"hot"without exaggeration. It is also because of this, critics have commented on this issue, and say that Wolf Totem is a mediocre work. It was only because of speculation before the business of this work so sensational.Through critical analysis of Wolf Totem, we have interpreted this novel from another aspect, which is the perspective of the reader's view. Therefore, this study examines the rational literary work once again. This study has perfected the relations among the author, works and readers, which constitutes a continuously cycle between the reading - criticism - acceptance process.