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The Modern Elegant Lady In Boudoir Of Lin Shuhua

Posted on:2012-07-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L L ZhuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330368487268Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In the course of the development of modern Chinese literature in the past one hundred years, the first female writer group appeared in The May 4th Movement. Most of them follow the modern pace of men, among whom Ling Shuhua is a special one. Ling, as well as her works, becomes the window of observing tradition and the contemporary era shaping female individuals subtly, on account of the spirit of the tradition of the elegant lady in boudoir and the ideology of the modern women in her body. On that basis, the name of "The Modern Elegant Lady In Boudoir" is refined, distinguishing from the general name of modern women.The introduction traces back to the writing of the traditional elegant lady in boudoir, discussing historical situation and cul tural accumulation, and exploring the whole characteristics of the writing of the traditional elegant lady in boudoir on the center of Zhu Shuzhen.The following three chapters discuss the modern elegant lady in boudoir of Ling Shuhua. The first two chapters, combing fresh points with specific methods, focus on texts, discussing the traditional resource and modern consciousness involved in Ling Shuhua's works. The first chapter of Ling Shuhua's boudoir rewriting discusses the author's succeeding and recreating the writing of the traditional elegant lady in boudoir with modern eyes. The attic nightmare sighs abut the traditional women in the modern context. The theatre of husband and.wife performs the imbroglios between the body of boudoir and others in the reality or in fantasy. The second chapter of Ling Shuhua's siege narration talks about modern women's confusion and blindness when facing the siege of marriage showing. Modern women walk to and fro in the forked road making the difficult decision inside the role of wife or outside. Maternal swamp observes women fall into the old barriers of mother's role.The third chapter from Ling Shuhua's experience of life explores the dualism of her personality through the link of Ling Shuhua in her works and in the reality.The autobiographical novel Ancient Melodies might as well interpret the growing history of the modern elegant lady in boudoir.The evidence of Ling Shuhua's brave and modern choice for marriage together with her restrained and traditional cultural orientation can be discovered in the fictional text. In a word, the purpose is to construct the "The Modern Elegant Lady In Boudoir " value, which means modern ethics identity dissolves the traditional order, based on this dispelling traditional stratum idea and classical aesthetics dissolves the modern desire, based on this reconstructing women aesthetic ideal.
Keywords/Search Tags:The modern elegant lady in boudoir, Ling Shuhua, the Boudoir, the Siege
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