The Symptomatic Analysis To The New Version The Great River Novel By Li Jieren

Li Jieren, along with his masterpiece The Great River Novel has played an important role in the history of contemporary Chinese literature. The research of the novelist and his work has started in large scale ever since the 1980s, which, though by broad means, just adopted simplex methods and usually reached repeated conclusions resulting in a case-following trend.This paper is designed to analyze Li Jieren's Long River Novel on the whole by applying the symptomatic analysis for the first time in history. This way, the writer of the paper, based on the adventure spirit, intends to respond to the expansion of scope and multiple methods of research advocated by the research community of Li Jieren.The paper consists of three parts, namely the introduction, the main body and the conclusion. The introduction, on the basis of a general description and comment on present study situation of Li Jieren at home and abroad, demonstrates the benefit of study method adopted in the paper and the probability of the chosen subject so as to reach the innovation of the paper clearly.The main body contains three chapters, each of which is made up of two sections. The writer, in response to the passion description, revolutionary narration and customs formation, three cores in The Great River Novel, applies symptomatic analysis here to respective chapters. Main chapters in discussion come as follows: how Li Jieren's peculiar psychological changes during his study in France has impact on his description of his passion in The Great River Novel; how The Great River Novel produced once more by the author displays the author's writing mentality under special historical circumstances; how the customs formation in The Great River Novel is connected with the relation between the author's conscious and faith in life. The specific contents touched upon come in the following order: how the experience during his serious illness in France influences the formation of the passion theme and connotation signification; how the private individual mentality of Li Jieren, as a man and husband, is shown in subtlety in the novel; the imagery analysis to the a particular revolutionist in the new novel; the confusion of his revolutionary narration; the conversation stance, descriptive manner and humanist emotion demonstrated in customs formation in the novel.Finally, the paper writer makes a brief comment on the fundamental spiritual background of symptomatic analysis as well as generally explains the current realistic problems concerned with the public.