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The Historical Consciousness Writing In Postmodern Novels

Posted on:2016-01-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L R ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330479988866Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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One of the criticisms of the postmodern literature is its non history, and the postmodern novels are no exception. In fact, in the modern horizon, extremely has the challenge of criticism,history is regarded as a kind of based on the product of social discourse practice, in the form of text by cognitive history or shallow or deep will hit the impress people "construction". So in the post-modern context, the history of " true ", "unified" and "progress" concept is being questioned and subversion. So the evaluation of the post-modern "non historic" is biased.And fading out of postmodernism is not the history itself, but the traditional "grand historical narrative", and the pursuit of " Identity", " center", "objective" habitual of thinking.In this postmodern historical thought shrouded in the postmodern novel is the inheritance and development of this historical consciousness.It removes the clear boundary between itself and history by showing the nature of the language and the nature of the text, and thus questioned the “singularity”, “objectivity” and “authenticity ”of history.The purpose of this question is not to deny the history,But to pry the social context and the right and control mechanism in history writing by making history an issue.However, postmodern novels in the subversion of the traditional historical narrative system at the same time, but also indirectly will all meaning from history stripped out, razed to the ground by the historical depth, thus showing a state about due to the lack of traditional heritage and continuity to Strengthen the feeling of time of "present" and "now".Accordingly,this article explains the common sense of history in the postmodern novels bying tthree aspects Of the real historical question by Italo calvino, Borges linear narrative of history of subversion, Milan Kundera meaningless in history writing. Aimed at the three writers on the basis of detailed analysis of the novel text, see the post-modern novels of historical fiction, pluralism, graphic display, as an opportunity to make limited thinking of postmodern culture and history.
Keywords/Search Tags:Postmodern fiction, Historical consciousness, fiction, multivariate, time
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