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The Aesthetic Pursuit Of New Historicism Novella

Posted on:2010-08-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J M JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360272498745Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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There has long been a question in the academic circles about the Historicism Novella, It has been a long and hard battle that what attitude should we take towards the Historicism Novella. In recent years, there has been a new literature trend since fifteen years in Wan Li period published.Not to mention the famous fifteen years in Wan Li period, those fairs in Ming period is also a quite good book. The writer Moon in The Old Times said that:"History is amazing, it can be written as a great novel."It seemed that Moon in The Old Times has brought a new period in literature. But what we don't know since 1980's, there has been a big trend of the New Historicism Novella.The history that we've learned is somehow written, symbolized, marked. We learned and recited it. While the real history cannot be easily written by people. Real history exits in every moment in ordinary people's lives. It is not a perfect person's resume, on the contrary, it is full of hardships, helpless, mirth and happiness in life. Just as Moon in The Old Times said :"History is amazing."The scholars all have their own opinions about the concept of New Historicism Novella. The author of this article thinks that New Historicism Novella is a kind of novel influenced by the western New Historicism thoughts and modernism, postmodernism western novel. It focuses on humanity and tries to show the history by ordinary people's lives. Instead of the single narrating mode, it adopts a numerous narrating perspective. In the analysis and research of New Historicism Novella, most scholars focus on one single writer and the writer's works, but show little interest in the entire writer group of New Historicism Novella. That's exactly the innovative point of this article. The author seizes the overall characteristic of New Historicism Novella writers ever since 1980's.This article started from the concept of New Historicism Novella, the author made some explanation of Historicism Novella, New Historicism Novella as background and made his own opinion of what New Historicism Novella is. Then it comes into the analysis of texts and discusses the characteristic in composing a New Historicism Novel. Also the author made some reference to the western literary theory and revealed the aesthetic pursuit of New Historicism Novella. On the view of World Literature, Chinese literature has always been in the global context, and considered revealing humanity as an essential theme.The author thought that traditional Chinese historic novel burdened too much political aims and became national service tool. The existence of New Historicism Novella is a betrayal to the traditional Chinese historic novel. It tells history from an ordinary view, meaningless is just where the meaning is, it restored the nature of novel. It snatched discourse authority. Discourse authority is the way that people construct their own fact of history. New Historicism Novella supplied a plat for the readers. Reincarnation in the novels makes people come to a self awakening. New Historicism Novella becomes the heavy hammer that broke the boundary of history and reality, it makes literature no longer the accessories of politics and returns to the fiction. It becomes the forever words that concerns humanity.In general, the very point of New Historicism Novella isn't the construction of history but the reveal of humanity and cultural heart-searching. New Historicism Novella not only gave us a concept, but also a realization of discourse authority and self awakening.
Keywords/Search Tags:New Historicism, New Historicism Novella, The Contingency, The Basic Instinct, The Earthly Hero, The Narrative Perspective
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