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Get The Local And The Loss Of The City

Posted on:2011-02-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305977597Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Since May 1937, Shi Tuo to his first collection of short stories, "Valley" (when using the pen name Lu Fen) was "Ta Kung Pao" literary prize, he did not stop him from writing unique. In the 1940s, he created his own unique built their own city of orchard world, thus establishing themselves in position in the history of modern Chinese literature. In addition to focusing on local descriptions of the Central Plains, Shi Tuo also his strokes deep into the then Beijing and Shanghai as the representative of a city. Part of life in which people describe them. This paper written by its two main novel objects: local and city as the main object of study. These two aspects of creation in the pros and cons.This paper is divided into three parts. Part I: Rural China's "Ukiyo-e" - Shi Tuo Country Novel "anti-pastoral narrative." In this section, the concern is that the relevant local ShiTuo'Early of "Ukiyo-e" type of writing, such writing is mainly embodied in his collection of short stories "in the door pick up mind" and in this novel set in use Ukiyo-e style that is similar to the description, the reader of a fictional "Baishun Street world." This collection of stories from the beginning, Shi Tuo has established its alternative form of local writing, that is a kind of "anti-pastoral," the narrative. In this section, also expressed concern over Shi Tuo local landowners for the writing of family decline. Local landowners and their families represent the kind of "survival mode" has encountered unprecedented difficulties from can not really be maintained. Native villages on the host family really become a "hopeless village."Part II: Orchard Town - Rural China "survival mode" chant. In Shi Tuo most representative local collection of short stories, "Orchard Town", he observed the local community, closed and stagnant, the people living here can not be a kind of transformation to the modern way of living by restricting . Even if this way of life for a long time to maintain the tranquility and beauty of native, its decline and being replaced is inevitable. However, see the homeland of the decline of Shi Tuo's feelings are complex. This is reflected in the tone of his novels is a chant for the passing of time and the sentimental.Part III: "Malan" and "marriage" - the plight of the Enlightenment and modern writing. Shi Tuo topics and city in the face of the Enlightenment, when relatively large difference between his performance in "Malan", the Shi Tuo people in their own contacts with the left, the Enlightenment and the revolutionary portrayal of how love can reflect some times the truth. "Marriage" is not good at Shi Tuo the city theme, when the position of his native city to deal with themes of time, seems to have stretched the. The consequences of his modernity, produced by understanding the modern city there is a certain bias. This is so in dealing with the main characters in his novels, when the fate of the modern perspective can not be examined. Resulting in the use of local time in the world to measure the plight of the modern city.
Keywords/Search Tags:Shi Tuo, Local, Way of life, Enlightenment, City, Modernity
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