Study On Narrative Space Of Modernism Novel

Modernism novel of twentieth century can be described as brilliant, especially the Modernist Novel, it represents some prominent living situation and mental state the modern world, most of the authors of modernist novels are doing their utmost to show the people’s inner world or life to the readers. In order to reveal the true state of life, a modernist novelist confused a lot of time orders and plot structures, fully embodies the sequence generated by the structure and function. Among them, some writers as much as possible will disrupt the timing, the narrative structure of the novel is not only characterized by the repeated, juxtaposition, divergence characteristics, but also contributed to the from time to space to the trend.All the time, space concept is an important topic. In the field of philosophy, the concept proposed by the famous British physicist Newton absolute space, causing the debate on the concept of space, Kant combined Newton and Leibniz’s space concept put forward prior on the space concept, and after a period of time of development, and puts forward the new concept of space, to further clarify the concept of space. In the aspect of literary theory, Bergson’s theory of stretching, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of perception and Flook’s space theory produced huge influence, space concept in modern novels.The modernist writers in twentieth century abandon time order in the novel, use the more space structure. Since then, The historical narrative was forced to end. Emergence of space make modern novels form more rich and colorful. The traditional realism and romanticism of the time of the linear structure corresponds to the physical time and the use of corresponding, and the existence of God the world. And the psychological time replace the physical performance of the linear time of modernist novels tend to text in the form of space structure, therefore spatial narrative has become an important narrative method of the modernist novel. Novelist show their work as a whole, the unity of work it is very difficult to show in the same time, then they turned to the space relationship. It is the identity of space relationship creates a space form. The construction of narrative space provides a possibility for the critical method of learning theory about modern fiction writing.The first part of this paper explains the theory of narrative space and the trend of the "space" factor in modern novels. This part provides the theoretical basis for the analysis of modern novels in narrative space; according to the space theory of Lefebvre and Susan Langer, the second part divided modernism novel narrative space form into social space, regional space and psychological space; the third part construct modern narrative space with the combination of narrative theory in the four elements that language of the novel, structure, plot, characters and others; the last part interprets the aesthetic characteristics of modernism the narrative space from the perspective of aesthetic.This paper analyzes the modernist fiction narrative space with the theory, describing the theory of narrative space from several elements of the novel. The paper put the narrative space and modernism novels the background of the 20th century social development. Narrative space combined with the classical narratology, revealing the modernist fiction narrative space form and construction, and according to reinterpret the nature and interpretation of narrative space, and explore the phenomenon of modernism in literary works by the time order to space and narrative space caused by the aesthetic change of the spatial form of narrative of modern novels in aesthetic significance.