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During The Cultural Revolution Mainstream Novel Writing

Posted on:2008-06-02Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J H DongFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360215471580Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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The Cultural Revolution novel was the main novel creation during the Great Cultural Revolution. At that time, it was openly published and the political ideology approved and promoted its creation. Since for a long time, the Cultural Revolution novel and even the Cultural Revolution literature is discriminated against the range of literature research and the history of literature. In recent years, the sphere of learning has paid close attention to the literature gradually and the study status has changed to some extent. The research of the model play and the poetry has gained achievement. But the research of the novel is relatively weak and has no system research achievement such as monograph, Ph. D. thesis. I chose the study of the Cultural Revolution novel as Ph. D. thesis and strive to fill in this vacant position.The thesis is composed of six organic ingredients: Introduction. The first chapter is the production of the Cultural Revolution literature and the basic distribution of the novel. The second is the boundless reformation and the unfounded construction of the Utopia ideal. The third is the extension of revolutionary words and the description of grand ceremony. The fourth is the constrained sex and the sorcery-rization expression .The fifth is concluding remark.The introduction part relate to the concept and study range of the novel and describe the current research situation, pointing out the value significance of the selected topic: having the historic significance; having the distinctive literature resource; having the significance of opening up virgin soil. The thesis work hard to make a breakthrough in three aspects: holding material, macroscopic comment and deep exposition.The thesis have started off from 6 representative articles and announced the grim environment where the literature produced and the necessary logic artery of the literature evolution. During the Great Cultural Revolution, there is no set of orderly literature and art system. The militarizal tendency of the political system makes the literature system display the militarizal characteristics. The workers, peasants and soldiers amateur writers concoct out numerous works with the longing for battle psychology. The year of 1971 separates the history of the Cultural Revolution literature into two stages. Take the model play as representative in the earlier stage and the novel in the later stage. The subject of the novel is divided into 3 kinds: rural, industry and revolution fight.The main thought expressed by novel is elaborated in the second chapter. The subject of the class struggle is covered and taken over forcedly, which reflect that characteristics of the philosophy: the objectivity, universality, eternal, beneficial. Ideological remoulding is given powerful political significance, which expand the ideological remoulding partner extent and depth tremendously. Deflection and disobediention between strengthened politics and hiatus main body, ideal and reality, ends and means make the suspended Utopia structure collapse with a loud crash.The third chapter has studied the revolutionary words of the novel. The extension of the words is opened up. And the intension displays the single and pure characteristics. The class struggle, ideological remoulding and socialist construction become the daily life. Moral value of the Great Cultural Revolution appear the politicize asceticism value inclination. Excessive overcritical of the main ideological form sums and deformal use make ethics morality display the general,pure and absolute inclination. Lofty feeling of revolution of the heroic figure builds the base on the faith and participation of revolution with the bright moral blip and idealism color. The Cultural Revolution ceremony is the form of political expression with absurd color. The juxtaposition describe of a lot of ceremony circumstances constitute the version's narrative expression. The eight common circumstances of the novel have the revolutionary and pure characteristics, embodying that political words control and rule the tendency of the thought value. The novel also has 4 private circumstances which is completely squeezed, filled up by politics and display the ideological form and transparent-rization. The version is full of revolution language and makes the language violence get entangled with the repression of narrative. The worship of the masses and the common oppressed deformity form urge the psychology structure of the masses to change and form the"Fascism"mental tendency which show the spirit of vile character. In the novel, the fundamental tactics of the sex constraint is the politicize fliteration and the refusal of family and love life. The value recognized and the performance method of the novel has the ancient witchcraft characteristics. It utilizes the sacred and demoniac manner to mold character and becomes the modern display of the witchcraft ceremony. Furthermore, it evolves for the totem and the taboo which enable the novel to have the myth."Cruel summer fruit"is the concluding remark of the thesis. It tries hard to interpret clearly these issues: the history of the Great Cultural Revolution and the novel existence, the ideology and the literature expression, the revelry narrative, esthetic appraisal. The Great Cultural Revolution is a phase of wrong history. The novel is attached to mainstream politics words and adds fuel to the flames with the clamor function. Literature politics and the political literature mutually rely on for help. The Great Cultural Revolution novel is the esthetic contemplation which carries on to mainstream politics itself. It is"political esthetics".The novel is the literary expression of the wrong history. As for the literary esthetics, it is a lean ore. Its literary and artistic value comprehensively caves in. But the Great Cultural Revolution novel is the objectively historical existence which constitutes the history of literary development. It has contained the new time literary development seeds. At the same time, the novel unconsciously reveals the micro sunlight of the literary expression behind the political control.
Keywords/Search Tags:the Great Cultural Revolution, Cultural Revolution Novel, Mainstream ideology, Revolutionary words, Ideological remoulding
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