The Spread And The Variation Analysis Of Naturalism In China In The Early 20thcentury

In the late 19th and early 20th century, naturalism gradually turns into a global literary trend. Influenced by the French naturalism, thought trend of naturalistic literature is formed in Japan, which eventually develop into the special literary genre of "private fiction" in the early 20th century. Naturalism in the early 20th century is widespread in China with distinctive characteristics. For various reasons, there are great differences in the developing condition of naturalism in China and in Japan. From the perspective of variation, the method of the analysis by textual comparison could help present the developing status of naturalism in China.The thesis could be divided into three parts: introduction, main body and conclusion.Part I: Introduction. The introduction presents an overview of the current development of the selected topic in the academic world. It also focuses on the factors that account for the selection of the topic, the existing studies, the innovations and the significance and need for conducting this study.Part II: main body. The body is composed of three parts. Part one gives a brief summary of the developing conditions and the characteristics of both French and Japanese naturalism. Then it differentiates and analyzes the relationship between French and Japanese naturalism, explores the naturalistic variations and development in Japanese and makes a further analysis of the features of "private fiction", which is the extreme form of the development of Japanese naturalism. Part two deals with the prevalence and the developing situation of naturalism in China in the early 20th century, analyzes the prevailing features of naturalism in China, and probes into the factors that account for the different development of naturalism in China and Japan from the perspectives of the traditional literary concepts, the realistic context of the development of literature and the reader-accepted psychology. Part three presents the naturalistic analysis of variation in the early 20th century in China. For one thing, it gives a brief introduction of the development and the theory of variation; for another thing, it carries out the comparative analysis of texts in the angles of variation and compares the representative texts selected from the perspective of the visual variation, the thematic variation and the cultural variation.Part III: Conclusion. It is a summary of the thesis and a restatement of the main points of its argument. It points out the values of the study and draws the conclusion. In addition, it reflects on the inadequacies and the existing problems of the thesis.