The Study On Pastiche Of The Biography Of Mao Ying In Song Dynasty

The Biography of Mao Ying by Han Yu is known as the most splendid essay for recreation.The author learned from biography,fable,fiction,etc.and expressed dissatisfaction from the heart in the essay with playfulness.After The Biography of Mao Ying,more and more later generations were engaged in the two pastiche surges of it in Song Dynasty.In this paper,the author will take pastiche ones of The Biography of Mao Ying in Song Dynasty as the research object to seek to figure out their development rules including developing course,breakthrough,significance and artistic defect.This paper is composed of four parts.The developing course of pastiche ones of The Biography of Mao Ying in Song Dynasty are involved in the first part.The development of its pastiche in two different states-Northern and Southern Song Dynasty can be studied on diachronic level,while the features can be emphatically expounded on synchronic level.Pastiche rose in Northern Song Dynasty involving pastiche with the same purport and creative pastiche in the form of groups.However,pastiche was still prevalent in Southern Song Dynasty when its creativity in art was inferior but breadth and depth of life was superior to that in Northern Song Dynasty with the spirit of the age.The breakthrough of pastiche ones of The Biography of Mao Ying in Song Dynasty is explored in the second part.As pastiche in Song Dynasty inherited the traditions,it also added creativity into this style.It can be expressed in the following three points: in the external form and narrative mode it broke through the single mode before Song into diversity;in lyric method and artistic attitude it stored dissatisfaction inside before but changed into complaining without cursing;in the relationship between subject and object of pastiche,it changed from incorporation to separation.In the third part,it is significant to study pastiche of The Biography of Mao Ying in the development of literature in Song Dynasty.It mainly analyses literature and style concepts: in the term of former concept,pastiche ones inherited such literary concepts as essay for recreation,old for new & common for graceful,argument as the material to learn;in the term of latter one,they broke through biography style and deepened literature style.The last part deals with the throughout analysis of defects and causes in pastiche ones of The Biography of Mao Ying.The defects can be summarized in three aspects: content similarity is much easier to make similar family background,character and story;theme similarity is reflected in crying for dissatisfaction as well as way to be gentleman;imitation of narrative structure is revealed in changing the original structure and narrative skills.And the reasons are related with objective background of imitators,literature accomplishment,difference of creation attitude and imitation limitations.