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Jia Pingwa Mysterious Narrative

Posted on:2008-01-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R H YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360242960429Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Mystique is a continuously mentionted literary topic. Mystique has even been one of our cultural background which attracted the attention of Westerners. But since 18 century, the scientific spirit of the West almost overwhelmed the Oriental mystique. However, afer more than century' s baptism of the scientific spirit of the contemporary literary of the 1980s struck in scene struck in mystique again. Mysterious narrative become a noteworthy manner. Jia Pingwa's novels, especially the "Taibai Mountain in mind" and the novels he wrote after it are full of all kinds of mystiques.Jia Pingwa's novels has given us such a mystique world. The first is the mysterious circumstances abound. In these mysterious description, Jia Pingwa created a ghost interlinked world to the people, clearly tells us in this world there is a ghost world; This mysterious world is slao an animism world, all things have theirs own souls; This is a mysterious unknown world, outside the world we live there are some mysterious unkown things that have an impait on our destiny, foretelled and decide our destiny. Secondly, in this mysterious world there are also some lively mystique figures: some of them are also God, some linked with the ghosts, and some can predict the future; They reincarnated some animals, some are regenerated from the dead. Again, Jia Pingwa's novels also create a lot of mysterious imagery. The imagery are connected with the character' s fate. They constitute a harmonious imagery system between man and nature.After experiencing more than one century's baptism of the spirit of science, why are there so many mysterious narratives in Jia Pingwa's noels?First, because of the writer's writing position and origin. Jia Pingwa said: "I am a peasant." This aspect reveals the writer's orign which decides what the writer firtly contracted is civil culture, and this should firstly refer to regional culture, Shangzhou's unique geographical and cultural characteristics affect the writer's writing. Shangzhou's unique geographical and cultural characteristics of firstly manifested in the characteristics of Xiang-Chu culture, than followed the trend of Shangzhou-Xi'an in Han and Tang Dynasties culture; Folk culture is also manifested in the traditional Chinese culture, traditional Chinese Confucianism and Taoism invariably follow a mysterious roads, and Western Buddhists itself is a mystical thinking, and these people has very deep accumulation among the people, of which as a form of collective unconsciousness influences the writer's creation. The impact of a mysterious characteristics of the folk culture to the writer is enormous. On the other hand, That "I am a farmer" also reveals the author's civil writing position. Based on the civil culture,he depicts the natural civilian life, which is involves the mysteriousnarrative. Second, it cordes from the writer's aesthetic ideal. Which is to create a harmony between man and nature in the realm of aesthetics. The writersalso believes that a good novel should be of mult-meaning, and the way to achieve which is through imagery creation, and image creation itself easily lead to mystery. Third, Jia Pingwa think that the auther should be linked with the secret world and the works should express a modern human consciousness and awareness, which means that his works should express the unfounded humanistic concern, and mysterious narrative is an important mode of expressing it. Fourth, Jia Pingwa mysterious narrative fiction and the contemporary cultural environment are closely linked. On the one hand, it is connected with the success of the tasunari kawabata from Japan and the magic in Latin American.What is the aesthetic value in Jia Pingwa's mysterious narrative? From this we can analyze from several aspects. First, make the work with the overall sense, the formation of a mixed busy bealty. Secondly, to complete the need of the writer's expressing his consciousness of humand and modern literary make the work together. Third, to make the works of mult-meaning.
Keywords/Search Tags:Jia Pingwa's novel, mystique, mystique narrative
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