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Research On The New Century Local Novel

Posted on:2013-02-10Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:L Y ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115330371479150Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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The local novel is the harvesting fruit of the new novel in the 20th century, andhas important position whether times of modern literature or contemporary literature.The local novel had appeared loosen in the late 1980s. However, it had showed anotherboom in the late 1990s, which had provided the template for the new century localnovel. Today, the 21st century local novel already has gone through the course of adecade, we can tease out cultural space, the historical dimension, the upheaval of thesocial situation that collides writer's soul, grasp the course of the novel and convey theera of feelings. At the local novel of the first decade of the 21st century concern, authorsorts out and evaluates the local novels.Chapterâ… , in a wide range of the new century, the local novel is in the namelessunordered state, any single critical perspective is difficult to cover the diversity of thenew century local novel, in the course of the study. In particular, the paper based on thehistorical sociology comprehensive critical perspective, according to the characteristicsof the new century. The local novel change state from the "grand narrative" to "smallnarrative". The paper selected the local history, reality and women, and analysis thecreative changes of the new century local novel. The local historical novel of thisperiod is no longer to pursue orderliness of the social nature, allow for social ideas andcharacters portrayed in the complete loss of the idealized value and imagination afterthe collapse of a large space area of personal history narrative, the personalspontaneous view of history penetrate into the creation of the new century of localhistory, given a new life experience and understanding. The local novel depicts theperformance of local farmers ,in the villages,land,city (whether it is to stay in thecountryside or into the city) .These farmers are hard of survival in corner of urban modernization and globalization integration. These novels show farmers to survivewith heavy and hard. The new century filled with material pleasures deconstructsmeaning of the value of female identity. The salient feature of the new century ruralwomen is that women immersed in the flesh-sex-money of the road. But novels do notcriticism the dark side of these souls, which questioned the external environment effecton people. Rural women in the real context play the role that was written, therefore,women's personal values need a long time to fulfill, which are improved not only thedegree of civilization but also women's self-awareness.Chapterâ…¡, even if the time changing, the political ideology changing, somestability of rural life in the cultural style is still flowing in the daily life of farmers,which affect the statute of the farmers' ideas and action. The cultural symbols of "land","local homes", "folk customs" and "power" are the outstanding of the new centurylocal novel. Chinese has strong Land emotion; the love of the land is a collectiveunconscious of the Chinese peasants. A lot of people are still the son of Liangsan.Compared with the urban, rural custom and honest relationship show the idyllic ruralcommunity, and sincere rustic village hometown in today's fickle society, which can bedescribed as a warm touch. Mysterious custom still exists in the vast rural areas, whichwas rejection of the customs have been quietly flowing today. The supernaturalexternal force in the rural daily life is no longer excluded by local author, which isdisplayed by the original ecological perspective. These local novels show evil ofhuman nature and local history. Power in the countryside from time to time, village thedegree of democracy is imperfect. The power person enjoyed superiority what soakedin each pore, on the contrary, the powerless person have to bear the oppression of thepower. Not only village came to the modernization, but also local system and peoplethought came to the modernization.Chapterâ…¢, the new century builds ecological civilization. An ecological society isurgent for the Western countries, and imminent for China. Concentrating on "reflectionon history", "question the reality", "respect for the comfortable life", "ecologicalrevolution" analyses ecological theme of the local novel. During the Cultural Revolution, the concept of "anthropocentrism" resulted in a large number of speciesextinction, forest reduce, soil erosion. Because there are no geographical advantages,convenient transportation and preferential economic policies, village becomeprosperous and has a better living environment at the expense of nature. The 21st localeconomic novel calls for respect for the value of nature's life, the balance of ecologicalsystem, which builds a better rural home. The 21st local economic novel explores theaesthetic and philosophical relation between man and nature. At the same time, thelocal ecological novels of this period do not ignore the awareness of thepostmodern-natural regression, which oppose the establishment of anthropocentrismand non-anthropocentrism, and which against came back the pre-modern by early busof the human civilization.Chapterâ…£, the method of the new century local novel is special. This paper useirony, imitation, and absurd of narrative to analyze. "Critical analysis" summarized theliterature in the five modes of myth, legend, senior imitation, low-level imitation andirony etc... The "low-level imitation" is "imitating real life". The new century localwriters concerned about the daily life and the humble life of ordinary people in thesocial life. It is a low-level imitation mode. The local novel of the new century notonly imitate, part of the works to use the post-modern absurdity, irony, such as "BaLou Tian Ge","Life and Death fatigue", "Hedgehog Song", "The doctor Wan Quanhe"joined the absurd ingredients. Absurdity is not to create an absurd reading, but anabsurd way of rational thinking and a true reflection of the everyday life. Not only that,absurdity show the writer's rich literary imagination; Irony is extensive used at the endof the last century. The new century local novel exerts multiple irony narrativetechniques, such as verbal irony, situational irony, existence irony.
Keywords/Search Tags:local novel, ecological literature, rhetoric, the new century literature
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