Dian’s Memory In The City Of Dragon And Its Intergenerational Significance

As a very important literary phenomenon and cultural events in the new century, the post-80s generation youth literature, with its existence of the facts and extensive reading influential, has become a non-ignorable topic for contemporary literature. Objectively, the youth literature has brought much new spirit to contemporary literature, both in enriching literature types and further literary aesthetic style diversify. Meanwhile, it also has many limitations need to break, only with deep reflection can the youth literature lead to a more mature direction. At certain points, youth literature’s problem is also the problems contemporary literature need to deal with and overcome. This makes Dian as a special existence among the post-80s generation literature writers. With her deep literature background and serious writing attitude, with one excellent work she won the recognition of both the readers and critics. As her representative work, Memory in the city of Dragon strongly reflects her literary creation style, thought and spirit tendency, it is not only the reflection of the post-80s generation’s experience and expression about life, emotion, ethical reality, it also embodies the breakthrough Dian made in creation in many ways, which makes it possible for us to indicate the possibility that youth literature has lead to multiple dimensions development direction. This paper applies the method of intensive reading to interpret the theme, narrative art of Memory in the city of Dragon. Through analyzing how Dian’s change her creation from immature to a maturity, which may provide a way for the post-80s generation’s writers to make self-breakthrough to maturity in the youth literature creation when facing with troubles, to explore intergenerational exemplary role and positive significance Dian and her Memory in the city of Dragon in the post-80s generation’s youth writing.This paper consist three levels. First chapter respectively through the cruelty of youth literature writing, binary opposition of human nature, construction of ideal and the spirit of regression after faith collapsed four aspects to interpret the core spirit of Memory in the city of Dragon. By novel’s mental quality to illustrate Dian’s significance in creation:not only shows the post-80s generation’s unique life experience, it also contains a generation’s serious and careful thinking about life plight, it reflects some kind of spiritual maturity and wisdom which makes this novel more valuable.Through narrative art of the novel, the second chapter analysis the highlights of Memory in the city of Dragon in narrative perspective, narrative structure and narrative language. Meanwhile summarize the advantages in narrative skills, language organizing, etc. that Dian beyond age writers. Which suggests that based on a sincere attitude of unremitting exploration and practice in the skill of literature, after all that made Dian’s novel’s ascension both in connotation and significance.The third chapter mainly discusses the intergenerational significance of Memory in the city of Dragon. First it is a summary of the post-80s generation’s strong personalization narrative style in youth literature, simply repeat subject content, loss of humanistic spirit and historical consciousness, aims to analyze the common risk that youth writing may take under the background of magnificent feast. Second based on the analysis of Dian’s creation, once more puts her in the post-80s generation youth literature as a whole for exploration, from theme development, formation of novel’s esthetic style, transformation of content and thought, and the writer’s creation attitude and literature accomplishment to demonstrate Memory in the city of Dragon is a trademark in the post-80s generation youth literature’s maturity, which has dual nature intergenerational present significance-model text in the family of youth literature with a mark of youth literature color, it also makes their own breakthrough which commonly exists in the plight of youth literature creation, thus reveal a route for youth literature towards maturity.