A Study On The Growth Writing Of Lin Yutang's Novels

Lin Yutang is a unique figure in the history of modern Chinese literature,He called himself "a bundle of contradictions",Xu Xu is also said that he was "most difficult chapter to write in the history of modern literature."He was famous for the essays,and then changed to the Creation of spiritual essays and humour essays in thirties.At that time,people always "brought from west",but he went to United States and wrote a series of China-related essays, biography and fiction,sent Chinese history and culture and living picture in his eyes there.He didn't stop writing when he back to Taiwan in his old age,he opened a special column in the newspapers.His life become a broad picture because of his experiences.This selection from the novel perspective to study the growth of Lin Yutang's novel is based on a double take of the authors and works.As Lin Yutang is engaged in the creation of novels after forty years old,he incorporated personal experience and thinking in it,and the arrangement for the growth of the novel figures also reflect the view of the growth of the author. The significance of the cultural in Lin Yutang's novels has been discussed by a number of commentators.This paper chose to put his novels under the vision of Bildungsroman.This paper is divided into three parts as follows:The preface is mainly classified into three:Research status of Lin Yutang's novels,Setting the concept of Bildungsroman and The reasons of the research perspective.Chapter one is "The growth of the characters in Lin Yutang's novels".This part perspect Lin Yutang's awareness of the different growth of men and women from the arrangement of the female characters and the male characters,which using the method of close reading.In the analysis process can be seen,an opportunity for growth of Lin's female characters in the novel is love,along with the gradual awareness of Maternal instinct and gradually understand the needs of different periods of themselves,while they recognize themselves they understand the world.Male characters are always in the contradictions of"Self"and"other",this contradiction comes from the change from region to region and by the the impact from the new culture to the original culture,Or is the discord between the social rules of survival outside and the heart of themselves.Figures think and know themselves in the process of collision with the outside world.Chapter two is "The characteristics of Lin Yutang's growth novel".This part discuss and analyze the characteristics on the basis of the first chapter's close reading.I placed his novels on the background of Bildungsroman and found that his novels is different from the traditional European Bildungsroman and is also different from the modern American novel.This part is constituted of the content and structure.In terms of content,The measure of the growth of the characters in Lin Yutang's novels is not integrate into society normally,but focus more on understand the七rue soul.there are important factors for people to grow up is in the Guidance of "wisdom of the elderly"and the subtle influence of natural.On the structural ftont,the novel uses the Known Visual Angle as well as indirect psychological description.The growth occurs during the process of the figures' travel.