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Life Consciousness In Ge Level Novels

Posted on:2017-10-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2355330482490345Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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As the wisest life entity in the world, human beings never stopped to explore their own life and to ponder over the value and meaning of life. Through the experience and perception of life, and the speculation and explore of living ways and life forms, people presented life consciousness as an important angle of exploration in the philosophy of life. As Mr Zong Baihua said: "art is the manifestation of life, through which artists display life,and leave appreciator the impression of life". Every writer would pour their experience and comprehension of life into their works consciously or unconsciously. However, because of the diversity of their growing environment and life quality, their comprehension towards the meaning of life, life strategies and pursuit of survival also varies a lot, so that different works showed different styles of life consciousness.Shanxi writer Ge Shuiping formed her unique perception and comprehension of life consciousness through her experience in life and art, and she put them into her works. She used the power of art to show her to speculation on the nature and value, and formed her own philosophy of life. She cited many life-experiencing stories happening in Shanxi Plateau as examples to show that how people survived the hardship and multiplied lives, and how they break death barriers in the the opposition of live and death to reach the life harmony, and how to show the truest, purest and kind life value of humanity in a harmonious and colorful life rhythm,and finally to accomplish the rise from "human" to "divine", while the pursuit of living space and life experience.This paper aims at showing the connotation of life consciousness in GE's novels in detail, and exploring the narrative form used by her to express her own life consciousness, through the close reading of the text. Besides, it also did the cause analysis on Ge Shuiping's life consciousness manifested in her creation.This paper consists of six parts, namely, the introduction, the main body of three chapters, conclusion and appendix.The introduction consists of two parts. Firstly, we will briefly summarize the different sayings about life consciousness from the perspectives of ancient Chinese philosophy, modern western philosophy and contemporary Chinese scholars' thinking; and secondly,the writer will define the connotation of life consciousness in Ge Shuiping's creation, and discusses related research status and the innovation point of this paper.The first chapter explains life consciousness reflecting in Ge Shuiping's creation, in three aspects. The first one expresses the desire to survive. While expressing life consciousness, Ge Shuiping firstly emphasized the strong living force, which contains three aspects of life, including the silent bloom of life, the outburst of survival ideas, and the reproductive power fighting against the misery and changeable fate. Secondly, Ge Shuiping attached importance on the detachment of death after the emphasis of life demands. The second section of this chapter analyzes Ge Shuiping's attitude towards death, how she used the " born to die " philosophy to accomplish the detachment of death, and how she completed a life with" death "in an everlasting way. The third section explains how she began to pursue the promotion of the spiritual value of life after the the pursuit of living demands and of death detachment. The spiritual value mainly reflected the expression of human nature of truth, goodness and love. The author showed that how people accomplish the elevation from the "human" to "divine among the love and redemption towards others, after accomplishing the requirement of truth and goodness.The second chapter analyzes the author's narrative art for expressing life consciousness. The first section focuses on the analysis of life image group selection in her works. The author finished the projection from herself to the nature consciousness through the exhibition of human life projected into the natural landscape, and through natural images, such as images of plants and animals images. She also mapped the life and death to the images of the mountains, rivers, land, coffins and cemetery, through which she expressed her understanding of life and death. The second section analyzes the selection of narrative themes when expressing life consciousness through the analysis of themes like war resistance, family and small figures in her works. The third section analyzes the narrative language used by Ge Shuiping to express life consciousness, from the perspectives of poetic language, the use of dialect slang and folk songs.The third chapter discusses the origin of Ge Shuiping's life consciousness. The first section compares Ge Shuiping's narration with Neo realism and Neo historicism works under the context of Chinese modern literature to refine the uniqueness of the author's life consciousness writing. The second section compares Ge's works with other two Shanxi writers Zhao Shuli and Li Rui's works under the influence of Shanxi literature to extract the inheritance and innovation of Ge's life consciousness writing. And the third section explores the causes of her life consciousness from the writer's personal life experience.The conclusion part generally discusses the value, significance and limitation of Ge's works manifesting life consciousness,and shows the expectation of the growing local writer.An appendix of the chronology and award-winning novels writing of Ge Shuiping is provided.
Keywords/Search Tags:Ge Shuiping, Life consciousness, image, cause
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