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The Investigation Of Literary Psychology Toughts In <Wen Fu>

Posted on:2014-10-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R X HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330422457374Subject:Literature and art
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This paper emphasizes the research of the ideological system of literary aestheticsof <Wen Fu>, which Focus on the analysis and description about psychological aspectsof author. On the basis of the viewpoint that human’s spiritual structure has three levelsand Popper’s theory of "Three Worlds", this paper tries to Inspect and integrate thecontrary concept about content and meaning, sentiment and image, ideology and sign.Base on the research achievements of predecessors, this paper gives the furtherexplanations on that Lu Ji elaborated the mental procedure in creative processes andgrasp the key factors like imagination and inspiration, so as to benefit the disciplineconstruction of literary psychology in the present age.The first part focuses on analyzing the historical and cultural background. TheEastern Han Dynasty went through decades of warfare and regime change, so the socialfoundation was shaken, which had enormous influence to the social ideological trend.Within the social context, the status of Confucianism wavered, cultural thought usheredliberation and revitalize. Personal value received unprecedented attention andaffirmation. Literary works became individual’s sublime outlet of affection."Theawaking of men" inaugurated "the consciousness of literature" age. Meanwhile,metaphysical thinking thrived, which was upheld by scholars who were squintedtowards the domain of metaphysic to get spiritual sustenance. The scholars pursuedornate diction that is aesthetical and euphonious. This atmosphere had an profoundeffect on literature and art in Wei-Jin dynasties, during which <Wen Fu> emerged at thehistoric moment.The section two divided into three chapters to explain the psychological thought in<Wen Fu>. Chapter two macroscopic describes the characteristic of psychologicalthought study by Lu Ji, who interpreted literary theories by ode. The mysterious andethereal writing style made his literary fiction provided with theoretical definition andaesthetic value. Not focusing on abstract speculation and discourse analysis, instead offeeling the metaphysics by heart and delivering authentic life experience of author.Chapter three mainly expounds the psychological factors from the spatial dimensionthat contained content and image, sentiment and meaning, spirit and aspiration thatallege three major elements of artistic thought in practice. Their interaction shows offspace structure of artistic thought. Chapter four describes the whole process of artisticconception from the time dimension. Lu Ji realized that it must have actual emotionalexperience and profound learning mastery before artistic conception. Motivationpassion and inspiration play a key role in the process of conception. The sign communication accompany with conception. The contradiction of sentence hard toexpressive meaning should be avoided and let Ingenious and sophisticated ideas beenpreferably conveyed.The part three clarifies and expands the achievement and significance of thecreation research in <Wen Fu>, Viewed from a historical perspective. On one hand,<Wen Fu> presented clearly the proposition of "poetry originates from emotion", whichreflected that sages’ increasing awareness the characteristic of literature ontology, that isa great contributions. On the other hand,<Wen Fu> vividly depicted how to write fromemotion and provided beneficial enlightenment about the study of "soul-matterrelationship". Liu Xie refer to it and reach a literary theory of "The Literary Mind". It isfair to say that the ideological system of literary aesthetics of <Wen Fu> is the valuableasset of Chinese ancient literary theories.
Keywords/Search Tags:Lu Ji, <, Wen Fu>, , literary psychology, creation, psychological process
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