The Broken Silhouettes

With the vigorous development of higher education and much attention paid to college life since 1990s,many writers have put their enthusiasm for writing into the ivory tower, creating multicolored images of professors. This thesis,based on the background from 1990s up until now, attempts to use classification method in analyze and classify these images of professors and tries to explain the causes of the images from the angle of creation in order to solve the two issues concerning this thesis. At first, what kinds of professor images have been shaped in novels since 1990s and which existence situation and change of mental state the intellectuals live.The second, what are the exiting problems in the shaping process and the possibilities of improvement.This thesis consists of five parts:Introduction, Through retrospect of the professor images in novels before 1990s,briefly presents the specificity and significance of analyzing the professor images in novels after 1990s and therefore, raises the issues to be discussed.Chapter One, Lushing-up Desires:Self-indulgent Professors. This chapter sums up the professor images of power, money and sex pursuing appeared in the novels after 1990s, mainly analyzing the expansion of self-desire of the professors when they in the process of social transformation. This chapter consists of two parts:1. The Tussle in Field of Power,2. The Temptation of Money and Sex. These images have fully revealed the great changes in personality fatigued and degenerated intelligentsia in spirit represented by professors in the process of self-desire and self-indulgence.Chapter Two,"I'm Stranger to Myself":Self-finding Professors. This chapter mainly induces and analyses the professors images sticking to self-inquiry, self-finding for outlet in the secular trend,because they don't want to be the strangers to themselves. This chapter is divided into two parts:1. Who am I.2. Struggling in Finding One's Identity. Those professors who are not willing to associate with undesirable trend or evil persons are tortured by materialism triggered by value system integration, and who have even temporarily given up sticking to spiritual pursuit of the intellectuals, are still finding themselves through meditation and insight.Chapter Three, "Being Afraid of Becoming Thieves of This World":Intending to be Immutable Professors. This chapter analyses those professors who desire to stay out of the present society to stand alone and display their special selection and guard for their soul in this materialistic world. This chapter consists of two parts:1. "The Person who Want to Uninvolved with This Harsh World".2. Itinerant Wanderers in This World. This thesis respects their choice, at the same time, explores the possibilities of this above worldly considerations.Chapter Four, Unending Arts Exploration:The Introspection of Professor Image-Building. This thesis points out the shortages of professors image-building in those novels since 1990s and tries to suggest the feasible improvement strategies. This chapter is divided into two parts:1. The Problems of Shaping The Professors in the Novels 2. The New Possibilities of Shaping The Professors in The Novels.Conclusion.