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Home Consciousness In Western Literature Study

Posted on:2011-06-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360302497333Subject:Literature and art
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"Homeless" has become the modern Western general mental state of existence, is well known that the formation of such a mental state is not overnight things. It has last a long process. In this article, the author from the source of Greek culture, Western culture began to start, focusing on analysis of the Greeks in the myth of the whole narrative on the perception of mixed forms of home:in the waves under the guidance of God, the Greek individuals (to Odysseus as an example) in on return to their homes in foreign demonstrated in the natural, native spatial perception of the unity of the whole mixed form. As humanity developed the pursuit of abstract ideas, especially the West appears on the "logocentric" and the dualistic mode of thinking, the human "spiritual home"on the showing of a supreme spiritual entity pursuit. Greek philosophy started from there, the West can be found in every age the subject of a grand narrative to accept themselves with the "spiritual home" appeal. Thus, there homeland separate from the mixing of different whole secular form of space, like a God of Christianity, the Enlightenment period of the pursuit of reason, Romanticism on the pursuit of naturalism, the German renaissance of the nation-state pursuit. But with the rising level of Western knowledge, they are the"logocentric" fanatical pursuit, and continue destroying itself as the "spiritual home."Finally, when the West's rational in the quest to reach the ultimate abstraction, they recognize that any external entities are self-seeking fantasy of "game",the West began to no longer seek entities, their homes are also conscious of the form gradually being lost. Therefore, the author Holderlin manifested in the individual poems "out of home"situation, the individual in the spirit of the space on the deportation of the form to describe this view. Holderlin first saw the human spirit in an era of empty space on the land, the empty place with the times into the West can not close the wound. In Holderlin later era, home experience becomes a picture of the phenomenon in the home and as the reality of lack of combined experience in the home, the individual has been exposed as the survival of the problem. When Holderlin-style home experience into the universal experience of modern life survival situation, the "homeless" became the theme of the spirit of the times. At the same time, I believe that this experience is also home to the individual's experience related to changes in the modern mode of self-identity change:the individual in modern society experience a home space in the spirit of the loss of the external frame of reference, the individual the external frame of reference instead of self-identified basis points.
Keywords/Search Tags:home sense, self-identity, the form of home
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