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Civilians Awareness Of Elite

Posted on:2010-12-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y W YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360275969105Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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The reason why Lao She became a famous writer, not only because of his cultural similarities to modern literary masters in the cultural transition period and, more importantly, he has his speacil characteristics. The characteristics is not only the key for us to understand his novel texts, and it is also the password to study his psychological literature. The author, trying to begin with this point of view, discusses Lao She's spiritual experience and his ideal people, with a hope to make development and supplement to Lao She's study.The full text is divided into three chapters:Chapter One: The paper begins with the study of Lao She's spiritual experience, pointing out the double position of Lao She's civilians awareness and elite consciousness, and this spirit figures on purgatory in the ideal projection. Born with poor status, education in the civilian population course , civilian character of ideal personality and aesthetic concept decided Lao She's civilians psychological targeting. The targeting of civilians decides his civilian thinking and literary expression. In an accidental opportunity, with his hard working in the literature and talent, he entered into the cultural elite class, earned his elite position in the real society. Although he earned the position in the elite class, full of elite consciousness, he failed to integrate into the elite class where he was in. His psychological identity and perspective are always concerned about civilians, this is the spirit purgatory in the whole life of Lao She. The ideal figures in Lao She's novel are the refraction of his life experiences and spiritual purgatory of the projection, placing Lao She's civilian awareness of the elite.Chapter Two: The paper mainly analyzes the ideal figures in Lao She's novel, carding the rheological change in civilian awareness of the elite with the difference of Lao She's survival situation. In the first phase, the author chooses "three of England," for example, the solid work awareness, which is placed on the "Two Lees", has a close relationship with Lao She's situation of alone in England, longing for Western culture. In the second phase, the author mainly chooses "Cats Cities" and "Divorce" as examples, the contradictional images of Xiao Xie and Da Ying, Lao Lee and Mr Ding, implies Lao She's disappointment and anger to the real situation in thirties. In the third phase, the author chooses "four generations" and "drum book artist," for example, Rui Xuan and Qian Molin, through the fission of spirit, they grew into national elites. It proved that after the baptism of national war, Lao She's cultural awareness and sense of national identity has been released and sublimated. The image of Meng Liang is placed with Lao She's longing for democracy.Chapter Three: With the dialectical perspective, the author discusses the successes and shortcomings of Lao She's ideal images. Civilians awareness of elite gave the images duality or multiplicity of values. It makes the novel images showed rich human nature. Lao She used a unique creative approach: First, paying attention to psychological elaborate, be good at speculating; Second, tragedy consciousness and legendary co-exist. However, civilian awareness of the elite gives the unique cultural perspective to Lao She, it also caused some bias and shortcomings in cultural ideas and artistic achievements. The author chooses student protest and political as example, discusses the deep reasons of misunderstanding of Lao She's novels.
Keywords/Search Tags:Civilians, Elites, Spiritual Experience, Ideal People, Lao She's Novels
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