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A Comparative Study Of Su Tong's And Mo Yan's Family Narration

Posted on:2008-05-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245466680Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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As described in literature in the new era, the family narration has predominately begun to enter a period of fiery in the 1980s. New historical and cultural concept of creating a personal concept of the family narrative writing, and two writers Mo Yan and Su Tong's creation is one of the typical examples. Introduced by Su Tong, Mo Yan's contrasting research in a style of family.narration, the thesis centers around typical texts, such as "Red Sorghum Family," "Full Fat," "Sandalwood Punishment", "Wives and Concubines", "Rice", and "Poppy House". Taking a close case analysis of family narration during the same period from the perspective of horizontal comparison showed a different lifestyle, and development of the new era rich narrative of the family.In addition to the introduction and the conclusion, the thesis comprises of four chapters:Introduction: This paper describes the characteristics of the new era family narration and academic background.On the basis of new historical views, this part gives a brief carding of the features and an overview of current research into the narrative characteristics in. the new period.Chapter 1: The thesis examines the writer's homeland complex and the resulting extension of the spirit of the text content. Based on geographical factors as well as some other different experiences, the thesis tends to explore the writers' complex emotions of construction of the unique spirit of their homes, up to the individual creativity, exploring psychology and taking a cultural look at the height of the culture overview. Chapter 2: Combining the text, the thesis makes a comparative study of family specific figures.The study launched on two fronts. First, the writer deconstruct male family status and social significance, so on a large scale displays men in a inter-generational family and their self-weakening as well as their self-stray, and at an irrational angle re-examine the survival of Chinese traditional male culture(men are superior to women).Second, with women's right to speak coming back, both the writers , with a new historical perspective, focus on the history of women aphasia in the old days. Through maternal cult and female tragic survival they left deep meditation over history, culture and humanity of that period.Chapter 3: It probes different approaches of narration to highlight cultural awareness and human thought. It analyses the different representations and focuses of omniscient perspective and partly-perspective the writer uses in the in the text, and sums up and compares the narrative discourse from the two aspects of thinking magically and dialectically.Chapter 4: By observing the overall three aspects, namely, childhood experiences, cultural upbringing, and geographic differences, the thesis tries to unveil the objective reasons for the writers' different outlooks on life and the understanding of the world .Conclusion: The thesis further analyzes the depth of thought and the social function the family narration should possess; Moreover, the thesis hopes to afford a general assess about the family narration in the new period from the depth.
Keywords/Search Tags:Su Tong, Mo Yan, Family narration, The new historicism
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