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On Magic Realism In Jiapingwa's Fictional World

Posted on:2009-07-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P Y JiaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245481305Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Ever since the 1980s, Chinese literary arena began to take on a new situation of "letting a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend". The novel narrative has marched into its prosperous days, when multi-element coexistence of assorted means of artistic expression brought a wholesome cultural environment to the audience. The magic features represented in the world of the writer Jia Pingwa's Novels are rated as one of the most brilliant artificial sceneries in the very cultural environment.With Jia's novel clusters as the research target, which include such novels as Impulsiveness,Pregnancy,Obsolete Capital,A Gate of Earth,White Night,Gaolaozhuang Village,Sighing for wolf, Reporting Symptoms, Qin-qiang, Delight, Ren, Gamekeeper, etc, this thesis will be aimed at an discussion and analysis on the the magic features represented in the world of the writer Jia Pingwa's Novels.In the history of human's literature, it has to be admitted that the magic features are one of the significant literary phenomenna, however, it was in the 1960s that it was blossoming in radiant splendour. The magic features mixed with a unique Chinese flavour are acknowledged as the important features of the world of the writer Jia Pingwa's Novels. The magic features represented in the world of the writer Jia Pingwa's Novels demonstrate that Jia questions such viewpoints of Buddhism as existence being equal, everything has a Buddhist character, there is relationship between evil and virtue and karmic retribution, the six paths of metempsychosis, etc, while accepting them, in the meanwhile, these magic features display Jia's unremitting mercy and lofty spiritual realm in which he treats the secular affairs and human relations with the Buddha's Wisdom. By means of the magic features, Jia expresses his unique understanding and consciousness of the world, namely, a kind of transcendent spiritual concern dimension and rational thinking on the irrational world. The magic features are Jia's fundamental artistic views, with which he has realised his artistic ideal of writing "not-being" with "being" and "the beauty of super not-being", which is accepted as the important textural construction modes as well.In the world of the writer Jia Pingwa's Novels, the magic features provides many new views that we will explore the world.
Keywords/Search Tags:Jia Pingwa, the world of writer Jia Pingwa's Novels, magic features, viewpoints of Buddhism, viewpoints of literature
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