Wu Jian, Who Wrote Novels About Theory

As one of the late Qing's remarkable novelists, Wu Jianren' creation of romantic novels occupied an important position among modern transition from ancient times in Chinese. The thesis means to consider his three romantic novels as target of discussing, and the focal point is to analyze the forming of these works'creation thinking and the author's advance and wander in new and old replacement period and the aborption and innovation on art.The thesis combs Wu Jianren's cultural view, the theory of his romantic novels and the relevant situations of these works. My view is that Wu Jianren's culture view of reply the ancient was formed under the influence of Chinese and Western culture, and the core is " resume the old morals ".Not only had he put forward the unique theory of romantic novel, but also created three romantic novels.Among his romantic novels, the influence of Dianshuqitan and Qinhaishi should not be ignored too. Probably, it was these two works that make Wu Jianren's creation thinking of the romantic novel finalize the design.Morals are the main focuses that Wu Jianren's romantic novels pay close attention to. But he regarded " feeling " as the source of the code of ethic, and the suitable production of the " feeling " has become the ethic. Meanwhile, he also constructed three interpersonal ethics relationships: the general human relation in the society, the family's ethics based on blood relationship and the ethics relation of two sexes based on marriage agreement. Among them, he has stressed people's ethical consciousness and ethical equality. But because of receiving the constraint with ethical tradition,he made his romantic novels have tragic color.In his text world, appeares the condition of out-of-balance when refering to handle the feelings and morals. Sometimes raised feeling but forgot ethics, and sometimes went to the opposite side. Meanwhile, constrained by the period andthe prescribe's targets, there is the situation of "man—weak versus woman—strong" in his works.Wu Jianren's romantic novels has acquired great achievement on art. Especially in application of narrating in space-times . In narrating time, not only did he break out the traditional writing method according to time, but also showed unique thinking on the selection of story time. At the same time, he has opened up to the psychological space, and thus has expanded behavior space of the novels.