On The Phenomenon Of Iterating Journey To The West In The Contemporary Literature

In the literary creation of contemporary China, there exists a unique phenomenon: standing on the contemporary life and concept, interpreting and iterating the traditional classic literature works. In these works, the Widely-known Journey to the West is iterated by contemporary writers the most frequently. The Object studied by the writer of this paper mainly touches upon the works which are paraphrased and recomposed on the basis of Journey to the West during recent thirty years from the New Period. These works include paper documents, net stories, film and television products which are written, produced and diffused in the Interior of China and Hong Kong.The paper discusses the iteration of Journey to the West with three chapters except the introduction and the conclusion.Introduction: First, concisely and impersonally, collate the studying objective—the works iterating Journey to the West, and then point out the insufficient attention to these works paid by the academic community. At last, analyze the significance and value to study them.Chapter 1: The status quo of iterating Journey to the West. From the relation between iterated works and the original work, contemporary iterated works are divided into two parts, the works being loyal to the original work and the works recomposed based on the original works. Therein, the latter contains three types in the paper: works of serious type, works of human relationship, works of loony tone. They are the mainstudying objective.Chapter 2: The inheritance and development of the thought content. This chapter compares the contemporary iterated works with the original work, Journey to the West, from the angle of the thought content. The criticism towards society is more astringent, the contemplation on the human nature and subsistence is more thorough in the contemporary works. Contemporary authors' views on women and love are obviously more enlightened than those in the original work. However, some authors' views on women suffer from conflicts, and some works expand love towards inundant desires.Chapter 3: Character figures' Comparison. This chapter primarily discusses the differences of character figures between contemporary iterated works and the original work. In contemporary works, Tang Monk is beautified, at the same time, becomes the target destructed in the works of loony tone. Monkey King is more humane, of the characteristics of the civilian population and he is shaped as a "Confucian fighter". Piggie's "erotica" was highlighted and enlarged. Sha Monk, an honest servant in the original work, turns to be a little man who is keen to advance his career by any possible means in iterated works.Chapter 4: The difference of the amusement mechanism. The contemporary iterated works and the original work both bear the comedic character, however, amusement mechanism of different works is not the same. The original wok primarily characterizes the beauty of children flavor, besides the writing techniques of humor, jocosity and irony. The New Journey to the West is good at irony and humor. Secular works construct their plots with comedy events. Loony-tone works create an effect of unfamiliarity through the destruction technique, strike reads' sense organs; make an amusing effect through parody, collage, language ridicule or other ways.Chapter 5: The reason analysis for iterating the Journey to the West. Under the contemporary circumstance, Journey to the West is iterated so frequently. The inner reason lies in the polysemy of the text lemma, the text abounding in fantasy, esthetic traits of humor and jocosity, as well as the classical status of the text per se. The outer reason lies in the free thought circumstance of the contemporary era, the formation of the public cultural consumption market and the development of today's media.Conclusion: To sum up the paper, call on mat writers should pursue and stick to the artistic quality and ideological content of works in today's commercial environment.