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The Spiritual Allegory Of Contemporary Farmers

Posted on:2017-02-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J Y BaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330485474466Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Adhering to agriculture-oriented thought for thousands of years, China inherits life and character of farmers, growing on this thick and vast land and living day after day, year after year. However, turbulence and reform since the 20 t h century have slowly and undoubtedly permeated into village, into every corner of this land, into farmers? blood inherited for thousands of years, showing life phenomena and presenting joys and sorrows of human repeatedly on this land. Undoubtedly, changes of this land are worth being explored and recorded; farmers living on this land should be explored and concerned. Farmers’ Trilogy of Mr. Zhao Defa is just an excellent works focusing on villages in modern times. Based on intensive reading, combined with research methods such as cultural research, ethical research, literary research, etc., this paper analyses the theme of Trilogy in order to deeply explore the rich connotation. Analyze the author?s thought, interpret his humanity position and make reflections, make research on the practical significance of the author?s thought and judge the meaning and value of this literature creation in the history of literature.This paper is divided into three parts: introduction, main body and conclus ion. The introduction clarifies the significance of the topic, and briefly analyses the research current status of this topic and introduces the research methods for this topic. The main body of the text interprets the works and the author, from three aspects. Through the interpretation of the triple topic, analysis of the relationship between the themes, and exploration the realistic significance these three aspects, the first part preliminary discuss important value and literature significance of "Farmers Trilogy" s conception, from combing the themes to grasp the works? context. Rooted in the land, Zhao Defa accurately grasps pulses of rural areas and farmers, explores the farmers? lives, and touch peasant psychology. Therefore, in the second part of this article, the author showing the lives and psychology of farmers based on works, introspects in the vision of modernity, probes into the spiritual origin behind the peasant typical culture psychology(man thinking),and digs into the historical origin of man thinking. In the third part, the author first affirms some certain aspects of Zhao Defa?s spirit thought and humanistic standpoint manifesting in its creative works. Especially in the impetuous economic and social background, the author with spiritual watchers? gesture, gazes this piece of land, with a deep sense of urgency and a heavy moral sentiments in the works, to explore the development way of farmers. Secondly, Zhao Defa several times showing hesitation and confusion for rural status in the works, the humanistic position of this contradiction is the commonality of the major local native writers treating this rural development issues currently. And therefore, the author will shallowly contrast and discuss this highly representative- issue. The last part of the thesis which also is the conclusion part, synthesizes Zhao Defa personal novels writing course, to clarify the significance of writing "farmer trilogy" for the writer himself, further to put “farmer trilogy” in contemporary rural fiction, for analysis its typicality and representative. From three aspects, the author demonstrates the commonality of "peasant Trilogy" and contemporary rural novels, and affirms the significance of literary history.
Keywords/Search Tags:Zhao Defa, Trilogy on Chinese farmers, thematic analysis, Cultural standpoint
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