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Innovate The New Style Of Chinese Essay, Agitate The Nation’s New Consciousness

Posted on:2014-07-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H M WeiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330422457409Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Liang Qichao is a famous revolutionary and scholars in modern history.His articlehas a significant impact in China’s modern social change, the "new style essay" whichhe created is a milestone in the history of Chinese literature, and is also an indispensablebridge between traditional literature and modern literature. The thesis’s discussion basedon the influences and loaded language in the "new style essay".trace back to thehistorical and cultural context that it happened, and then interpret its personalitycharacteristics and rich connotation, finally, evaluate its significance and impactobjectively. The purpose is expected to help us understanding the new style essay’sstatus in modern essay history,and its inspiration on literary activities.The modern China is an eager to subversion and construction transition period.Soliterary development also presents the characteristic of rapid change. With the aid of theEurope and domestic complex situation, the tide of new literature has raged in modernliterary world. Liang Qichao put “new nation” as the core. Put the literary style reformas the train of thought. Put the modern newspapers and periodicals as thecommunication platform, Innovate the new style of Chinese essay. The "new style essay" has free easy style, unrestrained emotion, flexible rhetoric,which setting up andspreading a brand new era theme, innovating a literature road, which break away fromconvention, reveals independent personality. The "new style essay "contains the valuesignificance not only in the aspect of stylistics and literary language innovation, but alsoenrich the content of the literature, literary theme and literary spirit. But due to thespecial situation of modern Chinese society, As a transitional form of the literature, the"new style essay " faced with many difficulties, No matter on literature thoughts orexpression. Especially in the use of literary techniques, Liang Qichao choose emotionalas the main Method, the rational only as the ancillary Method. But we still have toevaluate the status and role of the "new style essay " in modern literature history objectively, especially the relationship with the May4th literature, even with Modernliterature. On the one hand, the new style essay’s language made fully prepared for thehappening of the vernacular literature; On the other hand, the "New style essay "provides more content and themes for later prose creation. In a word, the "New styleessay " not only widened the expressive force of prose, but also changed the overallcondition of Chinese modern prose..
Keywords/Search Tags:Liang Qichao, the "New style essay", background, characteristics, influence
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