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Utopia Form Comparative Study In The Ancient Chinese And Western Literary Works

Posted on:2013-01-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330374961593Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Utopia is an imagination, sustenance and expression of the human for the futureand the ideal world."Utopia" is a noun, the first one by Thomas Moore, a fictionalisland's name, followed by the existence of many literary works in the "ideal world"synonymous. This article aims through specific forms of "Utopia" in ancient literature inthe West to find the human spirit of common ideals, the interpretation of the humanpursuit of the "ideal world" is not only a single individual, while depths of the collectiveunconscious of the human heart.This paper only selected before19th century in the ancient literary Worksdescribed the typical "Utopia" and "utopia" in the West and in China in the ancientliterature morphology, compared the mythical imagination Spirit Mountain Qiongdaoparadise blessed, moral society and justice of the state, secular literature ofphilosophical pursuit of paradise and the perfect world and the rational exploration ofthe gentleman of the country and rational in the Kingdom.The first part of this paper is the introduction part, described the theoretical basis ofthe research in this thesis, methods, research status, purpose, value, and related conceptsare defined.The second part describes the Ancient Chinese and Western Literary works,mythical imagination-Spirit Mountain Qiongdao with paradise blessed, specificanalysis "the column Gushe Mountain","Peng Lai","Blessed spot","Eden","ParadiseLand","Golden Age","Cloud wood pigeon 's Country" Utopia specific forms of theancient people, to find out the common pursuit of ideal paradise.The third part is mainly about the literary and philosophical perspective of idealworld—moral society and justice of the state, specific analysis of the philosophers,literary works of " small territory and population"," excellent world"," world"," idealcountry"," city of God"," Sun City" Utopia specific morphology, to find out theliterature philosophy of people of " national social organization" form of the commonrequirements. The fourth part mainly describes the secular pursuit of ideal world--land of idyllicbeauty and perfect world, specific analysis of the" land of idyllic beauty"," the hiddenrural","Ching suffering Church","Utopia","Ocean State" utopia. Through thecomparison of ideal world, found that transcend the reality social ideal secular societycommon desire.The fifth part mainly describes the rational exploration of ideal world--agentleman's country and rational kingdom, specific analysis of the "gentlemen'scountry","Loyalty Hall, Poly and the Church","Terai Abbey","Hui YinUtopia specificform of the State "," Neanderthal society "," waterfront ", to show the same aspirationsof human rationality, equality, freedom and the ideal of rational society.The last part is the conclusion part, analysis in the western literary works of ancientUtopia morphological similarities and differences, reveals the " Utopia" is not only theWestern common topic, fully reflects the common human literary purport, fulldescription of human to the ideal world pursue human collective unconscious is amanifestation of human consciousness, to express a deep awareness of the commondesire.
Keywords/Search Tags:Utopia, ideal world, myth, secular, rational, common desire
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