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Little Women's Prose

Posted on:2010-12-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M L YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278458627Subject:Literature and art
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Ever since its presentation,the Little Women's Prose receives much scold and castigation.It is getting gradually out of the view,but the interests of the scholars are becoming stronger.The reason is that,as a typical pattern of metropolitan literature,its rich cultural meaning of text could reflect the drastic society change in the middle of 1990's and the subtle psychological change of the urbanites during the modernization.With the view of feminine expression,through analysis and appreciation of the literature and text characteristics,the essay seeks to explore the mainstresm pursuit of middle class femine of the 1990's and other route of femine consciousness expression.In the strong tide of secularism,the Little Women's Prose writes directly her life pursuit in a traditional like form,which deconstructs the cultural autarchy of grand narrative.However,their deconstruction is not through direct attack,or sparing on efforts in dissolution.In the easy and slow rhythm,in the gentle narrative,they shorten the gap between the readers.In the daily life routine,in the daily amorous affairs,they construct their own flowery modern femine space.They grasp the pulse of the times and zoom in on the focus of the times.They enter the text with the view of feminine subjectivity,feel and listen to the world,express themselves at will in the form of life essay and show as their like the liberation of body and mind of modern people in leisure and entertainment.Display the real form of life and advance the full scale development of human being.Aesthetics and daily life inosculate with each other.The freedom,joy and chubbiness of life spread in the real daily life.It reveals the true selfhood of all walks of people and the comfort after getting rid of autarchy,brings forth the deepening of humankind consciousness,makes people aware of their own essential power and existence,boosts the embodiment of humanity and establishes subjective status of human being.At the meantime,metropolitan characteristics of rationlity also emerge.The text adopts plain language and narrates in view of civilians.However,the Little Little Women's Prose is not always a real expression of urban civilians, but an imagination, pursuit and spurn of the first generation of cultivated white-collar urban feminie in the modernization, which strongly expresses their self identification and thus forms a new positive imagine of metropolitan and builds the image of early generation of petty bourgeois.However, the Little Women's Prose emerges in the background of reform of literature structure, emergency of popular culture on a grand and spectacular scale and severe competition with mainstream culture and elite culture. Suppression by strongly emerged consumerism and consolidation of commercialism weaken their liberate pursuit and self expression imperceptibly, dissolve the self consciousness, independence, subjective ability of the authors. Standardization and modulization weaken personality of composer and text. It shows the symptom of postmodernism. The repeat appearance of certain images in the text proves these. The cultural symptom of the Little Women's Prose shows the new outline of popular culture development and forms new metropolitan culture.
Keywords/Search Tags:Cultural Structure, Deconstruct, Grand Narrative, Leisure, Self Identification, Commercialized Culture
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