The Study Of Sexual Discourse In Yan Lianke's Novels

Sex is part of our nature and life,however,it is a forbidden topic in China,and only a few people are willing to discover the transgression.Through different angles and philosophies,Lianke Yan interprets sex in an unique(more and more surrealistic,creative,pioneered,challenging)way.Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille a 20-century French ideologist and literary figure,whose eroticism theory is a great gift to the world.Tragic family,suffering first and post world war experiences,plus some human crisis created by modern industrialization and civilization,gave him nothing but hatreds to the homogeneous world.To begin with "Inner Experience",he was looking for a treatment to encounter the contemporary historical reality.His sex literature was neither pornographic,nor obscene.The metaphors were built upon philosophical and emotional depth.Sex is a game that based on human characteristic,between transgression and arrogation,influenced people to break the society restraint.Lianke Yan's responded to Bataille beyond time through his titillating words,Bataille eroticism theory also shared some clues to us comprehend Lianke Yan's novels.In the mean time,this thesis will also link Michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud's theories,to interpret Lianke Yan himself and his writing.This article is taking erotic language from Lianke Yan's novels as a research subject.With Bataille's philosophy,through a series of metaphors,aesthetic standards and original immanence to fully discourse on how the author's constructed and developed a writing style to represent sex literature.Introduction part will brief Lianke Yan and his publications,as well as,Bataille and his eroticism concepts.Main text of thesis is composed of 3 parts:Chapter One,a unique perspective through analyzing and discovering the erotic language over space,voice and color metaphors;Chapter Two,intensive reading had been carried out to reveal Lianke Yan's distinctive aortic aesthetic implication over his rhetoric,such as:hyperbole,irony,absurdity,tragicomedy,anti-poetry;Chapter Three,by Bataille's philosophy interpretation and inspiration,from "Inner characteristics&Humanity","Taboo&Resistance","Human Sacrifice" standpoints to comprehend and questioned Lianke Yan's philosophical immanence.Conclusion is to summarize the view of this thesis.