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The Charactrizing And Significance Of Literary History Of Xiang Xi Underage Girls As The Same Character Type

Posted on:2019-11-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X J LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330545985577Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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“Cui Cui”is famous as the typical character of Shen Congwen's novels.She has always been the objection of study by scholars in the academic world for the reason that she is the characters containing rich thought,artistic and cultural connotation.As a group of women images in Shen Congwen's Xiang Xi novels,Xiang Xi underage girls have much in commons in region,age,appearence,personality and domestic relation,so they can be defined as the same character type which contains profound cultural implication.Xiang Xi underage girls as the same character type have two features: they are “godness” and the symbol of beauty and purity in the eyes of Shen Congwen.Besides,they are also the “mask angles”fantasized by the author as well as the “weak lambs” who can't take control of their own destiny in the Patriarchal society.The reason for their appearance in Shen Congwen's novels has a close relationship with the folk belief in Xiang Xi,water worship of Chinese ancestors and the author's self-personality projection.These Xiang Xi underage girls shared the same chraracter type is characterized in the same narrative mode.Firstly,the use of direct speech and the narration of absent narrator reduces the narrative intervention thus making the characters vivid and objective images.Secondly,the use of full-focusing viewpoint and the third person narration promotes the flexibility of narration,making characters' mental process correspond to its' external process and thus the images of characters are depicted vividly and deeply.Thirdly,the utilize of metonymy rhetoric and metaphor rhetoric on the one hand ensures the core event being unfolded and the building of frame of story in the fast pace of narration;on the other hand,it enrichs the plot of story by details and expands the poetic connotation in the slow pace of narration.The characterizing of figures type of Xiang Xi underage girls has a close relationship with other writers but also has its own distinctiveness.Shen takes what our forebears have left us but as a departure for new inventions as a bridge.The uniquenes of Shen Congwen's Xiang Xi novels is that he is always characterizing the undeage girls in the love tragedy.Shen Congwen's Xiang Xi novels is a great enlightenment for writers of today to characterize their figures in novels in a forrm of equality and use the alteration of the character type in different historical contexts to reflect the history of the Times.My thesis aims at observeing and studying on Shen Congwen's multi-texts in the perspective of the literature history.Besides,interpretating on Shen Congwen's serveral Xiang Xi novels in aspects of cultural features,modes of charactrizing,definition of menging and inflection on value of Xiang Xi underage girls images.
Keywords/Search Tags:Shen Congwen, Xiang Xi Underage Girls images, Cultural Features, Modes of Charactrizing, The Significance of Literary History
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