The Research Of Shen Congwen's Preface And Postscript

Shen Congwen is undoubted an important person who is unable to avoid when we are talking of Chinese literature. The literature of Shen Congwen is quite rich and it is becoming systemic research results in academic areas for several years. But recently the research of Shen Congwen became focus on his identity of scholar which is diversified.The new discovery of Shen Congwen is embodied in not only the traditional text such as novels and prose, but also as the identity of critic in the traditional text such as inscription or preface and postscript. This article attempts to take the perspective of vice-text, to analyze and explore the preface and postscript of Shen Congwen which is publicly viewable. To penetrate into the writer's creation and life, we can know Shen Congwen's literary concept and ideology.In the introduction, reviewing the different research status of the literary forms of preface and postscript in the field of ancient literature and modern contemporary literature research, briefly explaining the attention of preface and postscript is minority in modern contemporary literature research. In chapter one, basing on the system of vice-text confirms the conception of preface and postscript,discussing the status and features of reface and postscript and the recent existing research in modern contemporary literature, stressing the profile of Shen Congwen's preface and postscript. In chapter two, mainly excavating Shen Congwen's literary concept which is hiding in preface and postscript. Standing up for himself during literary creation, Shen Congwen not only created a series of prose-fiction which represents beauty and wisdom, but also left the core of his ideas about literature during his preface and postscript writing. In chaper three, enrolling preface and postscript into historical data carrier, discussing detailed the value and significance of preface and postscript from the preface and postscript's record of Sheng Congwen's personal growth, the changes of his literary creation and record his personal relationships.