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Shen Congwen's Life Consciousness Study In The 1940s Prose

Posted on:2019-04-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330566978611Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Relative to the novel,drama,poetry,prose is a literary genre,the beauties of the prose genre refined short,implicative and real,can more directly expresses the subject of value pursuit,the rational cognition,psychological experience and spiritual pursuit.Prose is an important part of his creation,Shen Congwen is also the famous essayist and he is a writer with strong life consciousness,because of the war,the forties to Shen Congwen,is of special significance for the whole Chinese nation.Shen congwen's life consciousness in prose creation in the 1940 s,more is about the meaning of life,the outlets of national thinking,to the world a hidden hot look on coldly,difficult reality environment,cultural environment in the war,melancholy personality increased loneliness of Shen congwen in the forties,stubborn and deep inner contradictions,stimulates the Shen congwen to the reality and the future,especially for abstraction to dig deep to find life,made him in the 30 s perceptual understanding to rise to the level of the philosophy of life,from Xiangxi specific modal instead of human life the life for the abstract metaphysical contemplation,coagulate into the life of the rich connotation in the 40 s prose.The reasons of Shen Congwen's prose life consciousness in the 1940 s mainly include: the digestion of the "Utopian Spirit",the enlightenment of western modernist literature and the life experience of war.The dissolution of the "Utopian Spirit" refers to the gradual disappearance of the "Xiangxi" rural world.The enlightenment of western modernist literature mainly refers to the idea that some literary ideas from the western 20 th century were immersed in Shen Congwen's thoughts,make the life consciousness in the works has the tradition and modernity,the characteristics of the combination of simplicity and complexity.The connotation of life consciousness is complex and diverse,mainly manifested in the life's drifting experience,the solitary experience of life and the crisis experience of life.Survival,life,life is known as the "good philosophy",the survival condition of drift,nowhere man image of the characterization and comfort after drifting,loneliness is the norm in our daily life,the self narration,lonely lonely image,themes and lonely experience,life in the sense of crisis,moral crisis,spiritual orientation and cultural identity crisis,and so on are the rich connotation of life consciousness.The consciousness of life in literature,from the triple escape to the triple regression to the rebirth of nirvana.The consciousness of life in Shen Congwen's prose in the 1940 s is embodied in the triple escape to the triple regression,and then to the rebirth of nirvana.But escape is not an escape,not a retreat from the negative,escape is only a temporary state,a way of self-liberation.Escape from the country,which is characterized by escape from the closed suffering and the city's murderous atmosphere,escape from the uncut and uncut life and escape from the materialistic society.Escape is the temporary suspension of Shen Congwen's contradiction in the contradiction reality and life dilemma.The purpose of escape is to return,which is to transcend and evolution to higher level meaning.Triple regression return to abstract,return to the religion of literature and return to nature.The significance of the return is to return to the state of life,which is prohibited from being mothballed,to return to the state of natural order and freedom,and to return to determination in the confusion.Return to literature,to search for the spiritual self,to remake in the regression,using literature text to remake everything,in words awakened life lost meaning,make light of my life.The thought of Shen Congwen's remake,is a kind of ideological and cultural construction,is better than that of the notion of political and social revolution,especially for the violent revolution--the denial of war,the specific connotation is the reconstruction of life,the reconstruction of the nation,the reconstruction of the state,and the spiritual treatment of the whole human being.Shen Congwen' s prose in the understanding of life with a kind of detachment is deep,in nature,see the life of the open-minded,see out is the divinity of life,the life consciousness in speculative philosophy of life,to enlighten readers further deeper thinking for life.
Keywords/Search Tags:Shen Congwen, Essays in the 1940s, Consciousness of life, The meaning of culture
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