Another Narrative Pattern Of History

Neo-Historical novel, first appeared in literary world in middle of 1980s, is a type of novel which shakes the historical values of the contemporary. This paper, aims at redefining the new historical novel and making an overall description of its significance and narrative manner.The first part is to explain the relationship of history and literature. How does the literature become the independent history novel from the influence of history. At last, base on new historicism, Neo-Historical novel become more and more important.The second part is mainly to give a rough description of the related knowledge. Such as, summarizing its definitions, expounding the concept of "history", and the rising and main contents of the western New Historicism, the differences between the Neo-Historical novel, the traditional historical novel and the revolutionary historical Novel. Finally, we seen that the Neo-Historical novel can be defined as a kind of novel which, in the light of historical narration, depicts stories about modern as well as ancient life, the life of the folks in particular, and it conveys"a history existing in the author's mind". The third part is a careful textual analysis which is based on such two categories as the historical context in narration and men in the historical context. These novels didn't pursue the historical incidents after textual research and representation of historical figures, but by means of a individual restatement of history exposed the historical life neglected, omitted and evaded by the orthodox history. In these books, history became pluralistic space for writer to imagine and was stated as a declining process. Just some accidental elements controlled the history, The heroic characters in the novels were replaced by some fringe lay folks. As a nuclear illumination, personal desires replaced the conception of history filled with class struggle. Writers displayed the true qualities through stating common people's life and living condition in the history. There was more subversive significance that writers abandoned the belief of historical authenticity and constructed the supposition through subjective imagination and dispelled the intrinsic history.The last part, New historical novels dispelled the pattern of traditional historical narrative of collectivism, pushed the individual discourse toward the center of historical narrative, built the new discourse historical narrative by means of concerning the individual existence and power. Writers changed the historical narrative from the center to the fringe, retold history on the edge remedied the past lopsided narrative and used such methods as relation, retell. Besides, this part concerns as well the special role the occasional elements in history play in the narration. so narrative of New historical novels turn to another interpretation.