| Combined with the epochal factors such as the thought of the School of Mind and the budding of capitalism, The Historical Records learning in the Ming Dynasty entered into people's visions with its unique way. People in the Ming Dynasty opened a new page of the study of The Historical Records in the stylistic aspects like historical criticism and fictions. The study of the "literary" feature of The Historical Records has achieved to the summit,people in Qing dynasty thought it was unreal.The prosperity of The Historical Records is closely related to the proposals of the Retro Faction. The Retro Faction has been dynamic in literary circles in the Ming Dynasty for nearly a century. It always regards The Historical Records as the classic object of their imitations. But their narrow-minded understandings make them fall into the situation of plagiarizing and superficial raving. Wang Shizhen is one of the important figures in The Historical Records learning. He has dominated the middle and latter periods of the literary circles in Ming Dynasty for two decades, and is also the leader of the Retro Faction during its later period. On the one hand, his The Historical Records learning dedicates to correct the study methods of the Retro Faction of The Historical Records. On the other hand, he conforms to the thoughts of his time, focusing on the study of the styles of The Historical Records. As the leader of the faction, he has influenced the literators around him, and has widely spread the creative spirits of The Historical Records.The object of this thesis is Wang Shizhen's The Historical Records learning and its influences. Based on the analysis of the limitations of the Retro Faction, this study discovers the functions of Wang Shizhen's rescue of the "plagiarizing and imitating" atmosphere. Meanwhile, it involves the background of the prosperity of the thought of mind in the Ming Dynasty, and analyzes the particularity of Wang Shizhen's understanding toward The Historical Records and his recreation of The Historical Records in style. Through the comparison between Wang Shizhen's The Historical Records learning and that of the people around him, the thesis then extends the meaning of Wang Shizhen's The Historical Records learning in the development of essays and the history of The Historical Records learning.Introduction tells about the nature of this research. It mainly talks about the previous studies of The Historical Records learning in the Ming Dynasty and that of Wang Shizhen, as well as the study methods and difficulties. It then judges the importance of Wang Shizhen's The Historical Records in the history of The Historical Records studies, and the blankness in academic field.Chapter one starts with the attitudes towards the articles since the mist of the Ming Dynasty, the extremeness of the Retro Faction's treatment to The Historical Records, and its self-rescue of the members of the Retro Faction. It thus goes on with the conscious self-examination and improvement of Wang Shizhen's The Historical Records.Chapter two discusses Wang Shizhen's understandings toward The Historical Records in style and content. It also analyzes the features of his-The Historical Records learning in his old age, and talks about his successions and changes in his critics of The Historical Records.Chapter three uses Wang Shizhen as the major focus. It chooses three people who have intimate relationship with Wang Shizhen but have different social status. Through the comparison of their different attitudes towars The Historical Records, this chapter reveals the development tendency of essays in that age.Chapter four analyzes the influences of Wang Shizhen's The Historical Records learning upon the essay creations of the Retro Faction, and upon the history of The Historical Records learning from a vertical space-time.The conclusion sums up the whole thesis. It briefly concludes the points of the previous chapters, helping the reader to understand the outline of the thesis.
|
PDF Full Text Request