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Shen To Carnivalesque Study From A Text Works

Posted on:2009-07-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M YanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360242493527Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Shen Congwen is a well-known writer of modern literature, whose works have been persistently researched and concerning by the academia since the 1980s, but the Carnival feature of his creation is underestimated for a long-term. His works are inextricably linked with the Carnival phenomenon from the choice of subject matter, language style, even the text of the internal structure and the symbol of philosophy of life. This article attempts to inquire the form of Carnival expression and the important value of modern literature by the way of reading works of ShenCongwen carefully from the point of cultural anthropology and Bakhtin's carnival theory 's view.The folk carnivalization culture is one of the main sources of Shen Congwen's creation. Shen Congwen's civil writing confirms the free state of people, and publicizes lives of free will. At the same time it reveals the profound and dual feature of the world and stresses the nature of world's open and uncompletion.The carnivalization celebration ceremony is the prototype of Shen's production. Mian from the coronation ceremony at the core of the rave expresses the profound changes in spirit in the world of carnivalization and contains feelings of the people such as "the birth breeds death and death breeds new birth ", and constitutes the cornerstone of philosophy of ShenCongwen' life which is beyonding death.Shen Congwen's novels show a linguistic character of uproar. The various language in the text defend each other, show the various voices equally and eventually forms a large open language space . Shen Congwen fully reflects the language of miscellaneous characteristics of the creation of the modern literary.Civil, lau miscellaneous code and the phrase are the organic component of ShenCongwen' works. Fully understanding the Carnival phenomenon of the creation of ShenCongwen is useful to enhance the value of civil status in modern literary ,and to grasp containing the tension of the philosophy of life in contemporary literature and to establish a new type of equal relations between discourse.
Keywords/Search Tags:Carnivalization, Folks, Ceremonial, Heteroglossia
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