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Sublimation Of Pain And Love

Posted on:2009-04-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z H WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245995883Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Ting-chun Wang is a worldwide famous American Chinese writer,and he is the most successful among the top eight writers in Taiwan.Whirls on Left Atrium is one of his masterpieces.Since this book published in 1988,numerous studies have focused on its macro values.However,we seldom see the studies on its micro value,i.e.image aspect.This article selected 19 images from Whirls on Left Atrium and classified them into three categories to analyze.The first chapter is character images including the images of maidens,youth, men,labors,and travelers.Ting-chun Wang selected the most sensitive human emotions and took the eternal human nature as a carrier to realize the chemical combination of the friendships in their historical timeframes.He managed the readers' hearts by the beautiful sentiences using his poet's heart,historian's eye and philosopher's brains,and described the world image for us.Thus,the readers can see from the will of the people to human nature remolding;at the same time,the reader can also see in-depth evil and friendly seed in our world.In his book,he described strong personality,and he lets us understand all sorts of the rejection evil through a generation of person's growing experience.The writer described a vivid world to manifest every concrete life in the historical great billows' ups and downs by using the following mixtures:the blood and the fire,the love and the hate,the tear and the smile,the rationality and the frantic.His characters are concrete and vivid,and they stand for a kind of eternal spirit.The men and women he described turned into the person who has the universal esthetic value and the artistic image ascension.Only Ting-chun Wang who has the individual's ultimate concern can dash out the hidden bitterness and promote the patriotic mood to the compatriot.The second chapter introduces the nature images including Yangtse River, Yellow River,trees,lands,snow storm and moon.Through these images,the writer poured the cultural factors to the natural scenery of motherland and turned them into the humanities scenery.Wang lives oversea,and he recall his own destiny and sigh.His mind filled with hydrates painstakingly and he makes all that into a beautiful song.With this kind of pursue,he expressed his feelings not only by language but also by the artistic images.He endowed the chilly landscape with the solemn and stirring factor.The third chapter introduces culture image including songs,platforms,family letters,roads,injuries,dreams,nostalgias,and communications.These images brought the artistic manner to Whirls on Left Atrium.It causes the tumbling in everyone's inner world and turns it to the spanning nationality emotion and the cultural linguistic epic poem,it turns his feelings into nostalgia.All these lead to the best-selling work which the public focus attention on and make it enter the history of literature.Wang's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and harmony of complicated images.He can weave our beautiful flowers in the luminescent spot place.He illuminates the will of the people in deep place and enable one kind to contain many kinds.Thus he has achieved the revolution of literary style promoted the development of the Chinese prose by turning the prose to the novel and playing offside the poetry.
Keywords/Search Tags:Ting-chun Wang, Whirls on Left Atrium, Nostalgia, Image
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