"world Literature" Sight-japan Comparative Study Of Modern Literature

Goethe's Weltliteratur has been spinning the fields of national literature, which is not only regarded as a blueprint of the future for general literature but also possibilities for exploration. Although influence studies has been criticized for its over-emphasis on minor characteristics and minor works which contain relative values for national literature and affinity studies (parallel studies) with its concern over esthetic perspectives and conventional patterns is criticized for its subjectivism and impressionism, both of them leads to a valid investigation in space created by World literature under the question of how to keep the values on national literary while making it universal. In consideration of the same question, once the theory of World elements in literature is taken as a new model for research, the value of national literatures would be judged by a higher system such as "World literature" which will provide an interval space for nations'dialogue on an equal level.The dissertation consists four parts, i.e. Introduction, Body and Conclusion. The Introduction states the motivations for this research, in other words, how we could effectively have the over all commend of the ample complexity in the Sino-Western literary and cultural relations; also it provides basics structure of the whole dissertation. It proposes the research goal and significance of World elements theory and address specific questions in the research area before stating its research objects.In Body, the studies of One kenzaburo and Gao Xingjian, two repeasentive writers of their national literatures respectively,will be placed in the context of an on-going modernation process.Only by revealing the modernity of the two national literatures can the differences prove to be mutuallly complementary on such higher level. And difference mutal complementariness are only indicated by these two writers' individual choices of the literay genres and styles.The Body is composed of six chapters and an epilogue that starts with the chapter titled Nature, which is not a notion been discussed in Oe kenzaburo san's and Gao Xingjian's works but the nature of their cultural traditions that respectively has its original meaning in modernity. The second chapter concentrates on the discussion of the relationship on Subject and Self-ego with each aurhor's rethinking of either of the two contexts:the Second World War and the Cultural Revolution, which leads to an understanding of otherness. The style research in the third chapter gives a comprehensive view about two writers'construction of expressions in national language system for modernity. Chapters 4-6 is a theme research and an inquiry into the deeper fields in modernity that includes Dissimilation (Madness), Unconsciousness, Anti-historicism. In Chapter Four, the theme of Madness and the images of "Mad persons" provide an perspective on the identity of the paralysis in modern literature of both cultures, which leads to a comprehension by relating each other in the name of world. The fifth charpter reconstruct a space beneath the source of the two cultures'modernity by researching the unconsciousness fireld, which could be discussed in the larger modern context. The last charpter is on the deconstruction of traditional history in the two writer's own historical views and framework, but this process of decounstruction also has laid the basis for dialogue.The study of Oe kenzaburo sand Gao Xingjian, originates from the discussion of the differences between the Chinese culture and the Japanese culture.However the emergence of the mutual complementariness through the inquiry of the modernity in the writers of both has proved such an idea that the transcendental differentiations of varied cultural contexts should be eventually united to a larger extent. In a literary creation that is bearing more and more national characteristics, a possible path could be found for the study of world literature with a world elements theory as its theoretical basis.