| Animal novels portray animals as subjective objects,which can not only depict animal images with distinct personalities in the animal world,but also expand the boundaries of children’s literature,revealing the wisdom and significance of animal survival,and expanding the aesthetic perspective of literature from human studies to life studies,constructing a literary sentiment of caring for animals and respecting life.The animal world,as an important reference for humans,enables them to re-examine themselves in self reflection,summoning people to inhabit the land poetically.Animal writing occupies half of the land in children’s literature,especially the animal images in animal novels.With their full vitality and rich and colorful personality characteristics,it is deeply loved by children.It can not only satisfy children’s curiosity and thirst for knowledge about the world,but also stimulate their spiritual instincts of life,realizing children’s self discovery of life.As an outstanding contemporary Chinese children’s literature writer,Heihe’s animal novels adhere to the principle of authenticity,contain unique survival insights and life philosophy,and have a profound humanistic sentiment.He used his decades of observation and understanding of animals to write about the wild life states of animals,the complex and ever-changing animal personalities,the harsh and cruel living environment,and various games and struggles between animals and humans.In the conflict between the natural growth of animal life and the modernization of human society,he reflects on the alienation of animal life,interrogates the complexity of human nature,and rethinks the relationship between humans and nature.His animal novels have flexible and varied narrative techniques,a stable and powerful artistic style that is not lacking in delicacy,and contain unique aesthetic value and cultural significance,which has improved the quality of Chinese animal novel creation.This article aims to analyze the image types,theme connotations,narrative strategies,artistic styles,and humanistic spirit construction of Heihe’s animal novels,deeply explore the uniqueness and value significance of their literary creation,further enrich the relevant research of Heihe’s animal novels,and provide useful reference and reference for the study of Chinese animal novels.In the introduction section,an overview of the creation of Heihe’s animal novels is provided,summarizing the current research status of his animal literature works.The main text is divided into five parts: Chapter 1 mainly explores the image types of Heihe’s animal novels.On the one hand,analyzing the real animal images of physical properties,dividing animal images into domesticated animals,wild animals,and mixed race animals,exploring the common characteristics,beauty of life,and cultural connotations between animal species.On the other hand,analyzing functional character images,dividing human images into two categories: being friends with animals and being enemies with animals,observing and criticizing human nature from both positive and negative perspectives.The second chapter explores the themes of Heihe’s animal novels,analyzing the survival struggle theme of facing life and death,the hero theme of realizing self-worth,the growth theme full of alienation trauma,and the love theme of healing the pain of life in the novels.The third chapter mainly systematically explores the narrative strategies of Heihe’s animal novels,starting from multiple aspects such as narrative perspective,narrative time and space,narrative mode,and narrative structure.In terms of narrative perspective,it mainly analyzes the uniqueness of animal perspective and children’s perspective in Heihe’s novels;In terms of narrative time and space,study the interactive narrative time between natural changes and life growth in his animal novels,as well as the narrative space of the binary opposition between wilderness and city;In terms of narrative mode and structure,this article analyzes the Heihe’s animal novels from three aspects:gratitude and revenge,wandering and returning home,and the circular cycle of life withering and flourishing.The fourth chapter mainly discusses the artistic style of Heihe’s animal novels.On the one hand,it explores its personalized language with multiple sensory interweaving,lyrical prose tendency,pursuit of unity of authenticity and uniqueness,and rich symbolic colors with rich meanings.On the other hand,it compares the creation of Heihe with other animal novelists,highlighting the beauty of its animal novel style that combines hardness,softness,and emotion and reason.The fifth chapter mainly studies the construction of the humanistic spirit in Heihe’s animal novels.From three aspects: establishing ecological care,achieving spiritual liberation,and pursuing the cultural elegy of the "last ancient",it explores the ethical direction and spiritual connotation of Heihe’s creation behind the text,examines the modernity dilemma faced by humanity,and realizes the multidimensional construction of humanistic spirit.In the conclusion section,it explores the creative causes of Heihe’s animal novels,summarizes his views on life,values,and worldview,and points out the shortcomings in his novel creation.From the fact that Heihe’s animal novels have won numerous awards both domestically and internationally,it can be seen that his animal novels have unique literary historical value and significance in both adult literature and children’s literature. |
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