On The Material Writing Of Qiu Huadong's Urban Novels

During the vigorous development of literature in the 1990 s,the "new generation" writers,who were active in the literary world,paid close attention to the changing social reality of China in the 1990 s,the real living conditions and mental symptoms of the public,abandoned the grand theme in their creation,kept pace with the development of the times,and wrote directly about the current urban men and women's emotions,marriage and work in terms of personal urban life experience.The difficulties and anxieties we encounter highlight the complex relationship between the city and people in the current consumption era,and place the spiritual concern of the writer himself.Qiu Huadong is one of the important representatives of the "New Generation" writers.His urban novels,with Beijing as the background,focus on the daily life of the bottom and middle class of the urban society under the consumption trend of thought.He seizes the characteristics of the urban people in the consumer society,which are difficult to survive,emotional frustration,alienation of human nature,moral decay and spiritual anxiety,in order to criticize the materialization and extrusion of human nature in the commercial society.It reveals one's deep concern about the city and people.Taking the material writing of Qiu Huadong's urban novel as the research object,this paper attempts to analyze the external and internal landscape of the city,the materialized figures and the spiritual concern of the writers.Through careful reading of the text,this paper deeply explores the potential discourse contained in the external and internal landscape of the city with obvious modernized characteristics and luxury,and analyses the materialized urbanites.The living state,spiritual state and emotional state of Qiu Huadong further explore the aesthetic interest of Qiu Huadong in material writing,excavate the causes of aesthetic interest,and interpret the author's personal reflection and Prospect of urban development,hoping to make some supplements to the study of Qiu Huadong's urban novel.In addition to the introduction and conclusion,this paper is divided into three chapters.The specific contents are as follows:The introduction explains the definition of metropolis,the concept of metropolitan fiction,the development of metropolitan fiction,outlines the life of Qiu Huadong,and outlines the current research situation of Qiu Huadong.The first chapter mainly discusses the potential discourse of urban landscape in Qiu Huadong's material writing.The urban landscape is divided into two parts: the external landscape and the internal landscape.By sorting out the material symbols such as skyscrapers and overpasses in the external landscape,the negative impact of modernized technology on the city and the urbanite is analyzed.The commercial city itself is the cause of the expansion of human consumption desire;by sorting out the places and materials with consumption significance in the internal landscape,the paper analyzes the negative impact of modernized technology on the city and the urbanite.The symbolic meanings of bars,cars and clothing reflect the social reality that urban people pursue identity through conspicuous consumption,thus further excavating that consumerism culture has penetrated into the inner texture of the city,which is the root of the worship psychology of urban people to produce western material civilization and form the social comparative atmosphere.Chapter two combs the types of characters materialized in Qiu Huadong's material writing.On the basis of careful reading of the text and taking the stratum as the basis of division,the characters are placed in the bottom and middle class of society for discussion,focusing on the study of the four kinds of characters,namely,new beauty,vagrant,ordinary white collar and urban elite,to highlight the different manifestations of different strata in living situation,spiritual anxiety,emotional state and so on,and to analyze urban men and women.Sexual distortion,moral decay and abnormal marriage and reproductive concepts reveal the reality of material slavery of urban people,and expose the morbid mental symptoms of urban people.Chapter three analyses the writers' creative attitude and reflection in material writing.Mainly take the writer's aesthetic interest,the writer's personal worries and the writer's spiritual concern as the research framework,through the method of comparative study,highlight the aesthetic interest of Qiu Huadong's materialization,explore the conditions of its aesthetic interest,and place it in the social background,the mechanism of literary production,the writer's personal identity and other levels;explore the hidden individual to human in Qiu Huadong's material writing.Finally,combining the form of the novel text,the author explores the writer's spiritual concern and concludes that the writer tries to help the urban people find a way out and spiritual relief by means of escape or death,the search for spiritual home and spiritual salvation.The conclusion summarizes the shortcomings of Qiu Huadong's urban novels.