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Analysis About Love, Humanity And Children Emerged In The Novels Written By Mei Niang

Posted on:2013-09-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S N TianFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330371969760Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Mei Niang was a special writer in the literary arena, living in the occupied area of China. Inrecent years, according to the evidence provided by authoritative scholars, although the prevalentopinion that Zhang Ailing living in the south and Mei Niang living in the north posessed theequal fame was not true, that Mei Niang did have a significant influence on the contemporaryliterary arena was an undoubted fact. In the meanwhile, as the time went by, the masterpieceswritten by Mei Niang were emphasized and interpreted better and better by the later scholars.Mei Niang had high attainments in creating literary works. During the time that she spent instudying in Japan and living in the occupied area of the North and northeast of China, she hadwritten a series of literary works which reflected different themes, such as female, humanity,love, affection and so forth, using very lyric and sentimental words. Why was Mei Niang sopopular in the literary arena in the occupied area? What kind of particular value and significancedid these themes presented in the novels written by Mei Niang have? Moreover, what types ofcontribution did the masterpieces written by Mei Niang make to the entire literary arena?The purposes of this essay are to fulfill a detailed interpretation and analysis about the novelswritten by Mei Niang and, for the further step, to proclaim the unique appearance of three mainthemes,that is love, humanity and children , emerged in the masterpieces written by Mei Niang,and at last to uncover the unparalleled contribution and value made by the three themes to thehistory of the modern Chinese literary, by means of analyzing the three typical themes. Thisessay is composed by the following sections.In the section of introduction, a overall summarization of the current research status will becarried out to illustrate the angles and aims of this essay, as well as the value and significance.In Chapter One, analysis and interpretation of love which is regarded as one important theme presented in the novels written by Mei Niang will be focused on. Via narrating different patterns of love stories, Mei Niang built an affluent and massive world which was filled with love in her novels. Meanwhile, compared with the main theme of love in Chinese contemporary literature, the love presented in the novels written by Mei Niang was unique and special obviously, which was regarded as tremendously valuable. In this chapter, we will concentrate on the love world in the novels to figure out the exclusive value and significance that the love in the novels produced throughout the history of the Chinese contemporary literary.In Chapter Two, the different manifestation modes and significance of humanity showed in the novels written by Mei Niang will be discussed. In the 1930s, the trend of literacy creation by female had integrated into the tendency of the times and many literary works written in this period concentrated on the massive revolution, the Anti‐Japanese, national salvation, social darkness, corruption and the revolutionary passion among intellectual women. This kind of works just met the demand of times, ignoring the revelation of ego and personality. Restricted by the era environment and her own experience, Mei Niang evaded the social reality and politics in her many works which showed no appearant revolutionary passion and mark of era. On the contrary, her novels paid a great deal of attention on the survival state of people in a lower social grade and her own private life to show her deep perception on society, people’s livelihood and humanity. The theme of humanity in her novels exerted great influence on the special times and the exploration and inquiries of humanity shined indelible light in the literary arena of the occupied area of China.In Chapter Three, the discovery of children in the novels will be discussed. Via the different images of children in the novels, the significance of discovery of children will be found out. During the war of resistance against Japan in the modern history of China, salvation surpassed enlightening for the time being and the works focusing on depicting the images and psychology of children cast off. Nevertheless, the novels written by Mei Niang created lots of abundant images of children. In this chapter, we will figure out the interpretation and exploration about the society and future by war of the analysis of children’s image in her novels.In the last chapter, the inner connection among the three theme will be analyzed and the unresolved issues will be put forward to cause high attention about the themes emerged in Mei Niang’s novels.
Keywords/Search Tags:Mei Niang, love, humanity, children
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