Space-time Anxiety And Modern Metaphor

In the background of modern transformation,reform novel is the first to break the sorrow of Cultural Revolution and undertake the significant responsibility through the expression of policies associated with industry and agriculture.As the literary works about national ideology,reform novel is being paid great attention because of its resounding impacts and realistic spirit which is different from historical complaint.The western images represented in reform novel is often concealed by the passion and ratification endowed with time.Consequently,surveying reform novel under the reality of globalization and frequent communication between China and West,we can find that the western imagine of reform novel is the new point to discuss the literature in 1980 s.The western image of reform novel produced in the social actuality concerns with the huge disparity of modernization.Anxiety becomes the general mental experience in reform novel on account of the driving force from surpassing consciousness.Besides that,there exist modern thirst and modern pursue from individual,collective and nation at the back of anxiety.The entry points of this paper are space-time anxiety and modern metaphor.The paper will retrospect the communication of China and western society through the discussion of western image and discover the effective ways to construct Chinese literature.The paper has five chapters.The introduction defines the impaction of reform novel which is different from reform literature.Subsequently,elaborating the literary meaning of space-time anxiety and modern metaphor.Meantime,pointing the inherent relation between these meanings and reform novel.Moreover,introducing the research status by virtue of the time of new age.Finally,indicating the value and means of this paper.The first chapter is establishing in the special time of modern transformation,elucidating the background of western imagine in reform novels through three levels of reality,history and literature.Among the three levels,the realistic level points to the reformed policies from the 1970 s to 1980 s,the historical level contains the change of western recognition,the literary level represents the development from trauma novel and introspection novel to reform novel.The second chapter represents the family-country anxiety in western imagined texts through the points of time and space.As the vital expression of western imagine in reform novel,time anxiety includes the past and future leaded by linear time and mental transfer from anxiety to reason.Space anxiety contains geographical space,spiritual space and discourse space.In the meaning of linear time and distorted time,space-time anxiety also implies the modern significance.The third chapter appears the modern concretization in reformed sites by means of metaphor.Selecting the western scenery such as train,photo and westerner and elucidating the representative texts such as Oh! Sweetsnow,Take pictures for HeiWa and Manager Qiao assumes office to probe the valid modern rethinking about traditional and modern,nation and world,China and West under the relativism frames.The fourth chapter penetrates in writers and identifies the modernistic pursue in the western imagines of writers.Focusing on hard-held adherence to the concept of chinization and return consciousness or deep passion in modern nation,choosing representative writers and texts to elucidate.The fifth chapter talks about the instruction of Chinese literature within the globalization.Indentifying the limitation of ideographical expression through the futility of real west and witnessing the late 1980 s westernize trend in the midst of modern west adoring,discussing the problems of lost as well as constructive self-confidence.Meantime,affording the contemporary literary style about Chinese story.The epilogue based on the western imagine of reform novel discuss the anxiety diversion from initial periods to the middle and later periods in 1980 s,extending to the evaluation in the reform and opening policies.