Eternal Nostalgia

Modern nostalgic theoretics blend with psychology, philosophy,aesthetics, and literature, sociology, anthropology, and the otherrelated theories, is a very complicated culture research proposition. Inrecent years, in many researchers’ efforts, they have make remarkableachievements. These achievements about nostalgia are mainly tosome studies that under the background of nostalgic urban culturecases.But the nostalgia in local culture, which in contrast to urban culture,still has no special discusses and analyzes. Therefore, this thesis chosethe local complex which in the theory of modern nostalgia as a startingpoint. In the context of the modernity and the postmodern, the thesistried hard to make local nostalgia a definition and evaluation.Accordingly, this thesis chose the ecological literature which was bornwith reflexivity exist in modern nostalgic characteristics as the sample, toexplain the connotation and cultural function about local nostalgiavividly.Modern nostalgia as an aesthetic modernistic matter, suggestedthat for the past admire, joined a detached sense, intoxicated with thepeople. Local nostalgia is a new configuration of nostalgia, it in thepoetic and at the same time, also have a high level of consciousness. Itnot only have to miss local home, but also have the regrets away fromhome and home no longer, and have moral feelings of compassion,serious human questioning and firm self-salvation. These rich contentpresent in many images of ecological literature, such as natural, villages,wilderness, plants and animals, etc. Around the image, is somethingmake the person produces peace feelings, home feelings andbelonging things, is a tenuous but true heart filled with people ofbrilliance. The nostalgic images of ecological literature, get through the narrative of original natural images, become a kind of wisdom andexperience to deal with realistic crisis.This thesis established in the connotation and forms of localnostalgic, combined with the ecological literature art form fordetailedly summarize and further analyse. The preface, four chaptersand the epilogue are included in the thesis.In the preface, background of the theory of nostalgia, the statusquo of nostalgic theory studies in the world, general structure andmethodology of the thesis are discussed.In chapter one, unscrambling the modern nostalgic connotation oftime, space, memory and identification problems; Through to comb outthe western modern aesthetics ideology to find local nostalgic theoryorigin; In the context of modernity and the ecological criticism to definethe concept of local nostalgia. In chapter two, explaining the cause ofculture nostalgia that local nostalgia triggered and the function of localnostalgia. In chapter three, Combined with the aesthetic thought andthe theme imagery of ecological literature, interpreting the form oflocal nostalgic consciousness in ecological literature. In chapter four,selecting three of the works of contemporary writers for example,explain how the local nostalgic consciousness appear in literary worksdetailedly. In the epilogue, summarizing the aesthetic significance oflocal nostalgic consciousness; expressing the author’s feelings andharvest during writing the thesis.