The Creation Mechanism And Value Reconstruction Of Myth Renaissance

"The Myths" is an important publishing project around the world which born at the transition period of this century.The new replaces the old.Culture crack and recombine in the collision of tradition and modernity.The passion and desire of deconstruction and construction touches the writers.This paper intends to Regard the "rewriting myth-China Volume" as the object of study that published by Chongqing Press.They are Su Tong's "Bi Nu--the Myth of MengJiangnv ",Li Rui&Jiang Yun's "The world--the Myth of Lady White Snake ",Ye Zhaoyan's "Hou Yi--the Myth of Hou Yi&Chang E" and A lai's"King Gelsall".The paper aims to comprehensive use of relevant theories of Cultural Anthropology,myth archetype criticism and the narrative theory.Centering on "why to repeat the myth" and "how to retell the myth" to explore the phenomenon and its essence of the Renaissance of myth.This thesis is divided into three chapters:The first chapter reviews the literature origin of "retelling myth".It is clear that "restatement "and" myth "are both the tradition of literary creation for a long history.Then lead into the marriage phenomenon of "Rewriting" and "Myths" contemporary.Important western theorists have given landmark summary of the relationship between myth and literature which provides an open architecture for restatement activities:cultural anthropology of the religious rituals,myths and folk customs for comparison,found that different cultural and geographical space recurring story mode confirms the important proposition of the common concern of human beings,archetype concept as a kind of accumulation in human unconscious psychological form,is the embodiment of the human soul original desire group dream.This study is helpful for us to better understand the myths,has also become a reference principle in this paper.On the analysis method of structuralism to the story by Propp and Levi Strauss's four restatement works,found restatements fundamentally did not escape the basic structure of fairy tales,retold in fact is a circle in the narrative sense and have no new breakthrough.Secondly,the author explores how the four writers in China call the folk culture and local resources to connect the myth and reality,and to decipher the most primitive national spirit and the most profound cultural code.Identity of the local culture,to create a broad platform for folk ceremony and speech of a powerful and unconstrained style folk resources rich and colorful "myths",the novel re Polish belongs to cognitive style and value orientation of the folk,its origins,and the essence and the dross of local culture,the new meaning of the depths of the history of the primitive myths dig,to create the defamiliarized aesthetic effect.The second chapter describes dynamic content focused on" the reason of retelling"and "writer's narrative power ",because of the history and reality tell impulse,in line with the cultural and literary bear the memory of courage,some writers are breaking the social political reflection simple perspective to the myth structure of the virtual and real world through absurd historical movement,get rid of the moral a way to the modern consciousness of history and reality,profound culture and national psychology.In the century under the background of transition will be complete history after the break in their own way together,in the unfamiliar in the formation of strong historical allegory,showing solicitude for life,strong humanistic pursuit and spiritual reflection.Combined with the characters of the natural ecology and spiritual dilemma,double narrative aesthetic modernity and modern enlightenment,on the basis of reviewing on modern transformation way,with the aesthetic characteristics of the myth to carry on the adjustment,the traditional cultural resources and modern reflection by adjusting and means,different from some of the myths and modern pioneer Deconstruction and ridicule,"myths" in the pursuit of ideal faith is still moving,so the reader in the lost,compassion and sentimental.I can still get a poetic and aesthetic reading.The third chapter through the way of close reading of the four works of "rewriting myth-China Volume".Exploring the "myths" micro poetics.In addition,to explore the creation of this series the law from the narrative perspective,"restatement" is a reselection function and process of permutation and combination at the same time.Basically"restatement" and "rewriting" has its boundary,in the structure of the story always follow the general laws of classical narratology.The first section "the Historical evolution of myths" examines each primitive myth of origin,development,different stories and experiences,all kinds of different argument on the surface into a common structure.The second section "old tales retold" small but complete focus on four works of "old soul new show" restatement,modern penetration reconstruction,the image of the theme from the image and space heterotopias created three aspects of text,plot behind reflect the ideological and cultural concept,source,social history or ethnic psychology the reasons expressed in literature,were explained for the time and the future China society and the significance of Chinese Literature:Su Tong's "Bi Nu" depicts the centralized system of the bottom of the insulted and beaten images,to harm his life to the power of making desperate resistance,opposition and re interpretation of tears the wall,eventually weak tears washed away the wall of the fortress besieged;Li Rui "The World" in question to the anti intellectualism populism Chinese revolution in modern times,Including the reflection of the human nature of the last century,the warmth of the original myth of the great retreat;Ye Zhaoyan's "Hou Yi" attempts to grasp the characteristics of the times through the description of the characteristics of the impetuous,The completion of the human life,especially the original impulse of the dynamic,in consumerism and cultural history of the cultural revolution in the metaphor of the narrative of the new gender myth,and return to the pursuit of love and the theme of failure.A "King Gelsall" is not too much to subvert the epic as it is by divine artist a restatement of more The master exposes himself.convey the perfect hero of doubt,to break the predicament of human spiritual civilization,disturbed minority cultural heritage status and epic in the new period.The "heterotopia" space creation of the "Myths" has deeply plant the "restatement" seed in the text "others' space"in the soil,the writers profound experience of modernity impetuous utilitarian,the spirit of the times and the national independence of the strong call mirror reflected in the myth in restatement.The writer as the main creative activities,work style is influenced by individual personality cultivation factors,is also subject to the social environment and ideology.The single method ignores the exploration of the internal space narrative behavior and the narrator of the text,the author tries to through third sections,analysis of four novels in narrative time,narrative perspective and narrative voice using various narrative strategies,projected writer's individual life,way of thinking and emotional bias.They have a unique story mode,presents a different dimension of life and the myth of soul,for small characters and the secular history name,the story level nested with each other now,the story and the past story around each other in a narrative maze constantly constructs a new map and the ethical significance.Finally,under the epilogue "myths" Chinese area works in the whole publishing plan,comparing with foreign works over the same period,the paper selected A.S.Byatt's "The twilight of the gods" and George.R.R.Martin's best-selling novel "A song of ice and fire",which under the birth of new deificationism trend of thought.Comparing the difference between Chinese and Western myth thoughts,plus the Chinese significance of "the rewriting myths" evaluation and Prospect of the development of the status of literary history.The nature of myth is non utilitarian,it does not have to have a relationship with the reality has its own purely aesthetic value.In the restatement of the ancient myth,the writers try to establish the modern order of the myth,and assign the value of its rationality.The myth is the collective human dream,common sense tells us that the dream resources are inexhaustible,"the rewriting myths" as a publishing project has completed one day,but as a kind of literary ideas in the creation way,aesthetic art and value reconstruction to have a deeper and wider development space.Social transformation,cultural transformation needs support,relying on Western Protestant Ethic to establish equal tolerance,others back,the system emphasizes the procedures and rules,but Chinese is a lack of religious beliefs of the country,the short term is difficult to achieve.Cai Yuanpei has put forward the"aesthetic education instead of religion","myths" gives us a new way of thinking,the aesthetic power of the original myth,call for national history,folk culture cordial feelings;by intuition and symbolic myth thinking,find various social phenomena of the original cause,to understand and grasp history and reality better.