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Western Hunan World And City Life Comparison

Posted on:2012-11-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B C ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330371958666Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Shen Congwen is one of China's modern literary history of the famous writer. He self-taught, prolific and diligent. His colorful life experiences, his unique style of creative achievements, ups and downs of his uncertain fate in life, which made him become a legend in the history of modern literature. His creation even more can be said that modern writers are more in a book, compiled and there are only works of more than 80. His main contribution to the literature, through his novels, essays, building up the two worlds. One is his specific Western world, one with control of the city life, intertwined relationship between the two opposing penetrate each other.With the same period of the writer than Shen's created to show his qualities, he was not from partisan political point of view to write the rural backwardness and the city of sin, nor from the modern business perspective to the performance of material wealth and moral deteriorate, he is left-wing literature and Shanghai Literature stand outside and take a geographical approach to the nation's literary history of the creation. He tried to confront the overall structure of urban and rural areas, to the performance of modern civilization into the country's initial presentation of the various stages of the appearance. His work is quite different from other writers for the 1930s added a variety of Chinese literature, multiple features.Through his literary works, we find that on the one hand, he praised the Western world enjoy the natural state of one's life, goodness and beauty of human nature and dynamic of the original vitality; the other hand, he once again a rational vision for the past local park in modern urban society and the power of material corrosion, has been gradually declining under the impact, the Western world as a better existence Outrages upon personal pain of various diseases. We found, Shen strongly in the performance of urban modern civilization, the loss of urban morality, vitality and the desire of sluggish expansion, while he was not totally against modern civilization,His critique of urban life focused on intellectuals and spiritual significance level. He is such an attitude, we can not completely agree with the modern urban civilization, can not completely agree with the modern village of civilization, can not stand in the city based entirely on the position can not be totally on rural-based position. Through analysis, we can see that this general taproot of his double identity. On the moral sentiments, Shen tend countryman, but in a rational spirit, he is a mental state of intellectuals. From his memories of the good country life, he longed for rural, urban alienation of nature, but the country's backwardness and ignorance Ignorant, but had to let his subconscious yearning for urban civilization, can not be divorced from urban civilization. Shen, through his literary writing, completed the Western world and the city life compared to the comparison among the show in real life, touched and shook people's soul, his work and thus has a unique artistic vitality, but also gained immortality of art charm.
Keywords/Search Tags:Shen Congwen, western Hunan world, city life, comparison
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