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The "Story" Of Multiple Narrative And The Works Of Educatting The Public

Posted on:2010-08-07Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:K L GongFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360275467561Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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"17-year literature"(1949-1966) is very rich and heterogeneous。Many revolutionary writers,Coming from the smoke of the wars,not only were the witnesses but also were soldiers of the wars,so they collected many war materials.When the new China was founded,the special experiences of the wars and the peaceful environment motivated them to write novels,in order to express the hardships in the past,the present hard-won peace,and the aspirations of the significance of the revolutiona.At that time,the new government needed the spiritual aid in developing people's socialist livelihood and modernization.Therefore,the only way to encourage people to participate in the construction of new China is to build a new culture that spreads the noble morals and beliefs of the martyrs.Thus,war novels emerged at the historic moment,it became a socialist cultural capital,which guaranteed the legitimacy,validity,and superiority of the new socialist regime.However,the texts of the war novels aren't in a static state,but a mixture state of production, circulation,acceptance,and feedback,including reversions,adaptations(in the form of folk art, drama,opera,painting,music,comics books,film,etc.),and other variations.This evolutionary process of texts is termed as "the phenomenon of textual genetics" in this dissertation,which focuses on the phenomenon.So,we must return to the original scene of the literary production,circulation and consumption to find the historical process text of variation and explore all the possibilities of reorganizing the significance of revolution and restructuring the symbol of the cultural captital: Why and how to modify;the socio-cultural psychology underlying the modification:why and how to adapt;as well as how the game between the writers,ideology,the aesthetic and the editing and publishing proceeds.All the issues require researchers not only to examine the differences and gap of iterating and reporting the revolutionary significance,but also to penetrate the surface historical context of the discourse to enquire how they build their knowledge paradigm,to search for the dialogue and inter-textuality of different versions and represent the history of the interaction between different discourse and different cultures and the writers' psych and spiritual changes,and then to re-interpret the text enrich the rewriting of the literature history.This paper is divided into the four parts:introduction,partⅠ(three chapters),partⅡ(four chapters),partⅢ(four chapters),and conclusion.It mainly studies the phenomenon of textual genetics and reviews its evolution from two dimisions:the diachronic and synchronic space-time field on the one hand,and of and the modifications of versions and art adaptations,on the other.The introduction summarizes the issues of the spread,modification,and adaptation of the "17-Year" war novels;defines the subject of the disseratation and the core concept of "war stories", "version of collation","artistic adaptation" and "the phenomenon of textual genetics" and "the research of the phenomenon of textual genetics";reviews the objective,significance,and state of the research,and then establish a research perspective,the level,method and the value of the position.PartⅠmakes an attempt to clarify the initial context of the phenomenon of textual genetics interpret the process through which the "17-year" war novels that carry the origin and significance of revolution are continuously produced and spread.The life experience and the creation attribute, which is characterized by the spirit of Young Communist Party,the norms of soldiers,the dreams of paladins,and the temperament of youths,and the orientation of the social opinions are responsible for the building and molding the war novels into classics.And on this basis the phenomenon of textual genetics emerged by means of spreading through the literary newspapers and periodicals,artistic adaptation and education materials.PartⅣtakes four novels,namely,The Railway Guerrillas,the defence of Yanan,the Red Sun and the Sow Thistle,as example to examine the issues like text generation,version collation, artisitic adaptation,and propagation following the track of the changes of the phenomenon of textual genetics in half a century,the modification of versions of The Railway Guerrillas is the process from artistic perfection to inheritance of political norms,while the artistic adaptation from creation of revolutionary heroes to the narrative of human nature.But the author,Liu Zhi-Xia, sticked to the acceptance and love of folk culture between culture and politics.The revisions of The defence of Yan'an centers on improvement of artistic quality to enhance the vividness of the figures,but the artistic adaptation geared to creation of grass-roots heroes in the 1950s while in later times,it gears to the creation of the high-level commanders.But the change of focus varies with the interaction between historical valuation and literature concept.In different times,the versions and the artistic adaption of the Red Sun vary with the alternative increase and decrease of humanity and revolutionary ethics.So the strengthening of revolutionary dualism had been melted by the writer and director.But the phenomenon of textual genetics of the Sow Thistile showed the multiple variations and choice of the family narrative,love triangle and revolutionary ethics.The strong female feelings implied the personality courage of revolting against male-centrism in the political norms,and it liberates the unilateral suppression when female are transformed by Logos-centrism.But the artistic adaptation again resumes male controls of discourse since the 1980s,so the women's sentiment become a "Vase"-like rhetoric.Part three investigates the phenomenon of textual genetics of the 17-year war novels from the four perspectives of the rhetorical strategies,the modification of the original version,the evolution of revised versions,and the artistic adaptation strategies,searches for the reasons and motivations and their significance fo the narrative,and summarizes the regularity of the textual development. The emphasis is placed on the revolutionary ethics,historical narrative,mythological metaphor, and the rhetoric function of d the aesthetic fracture;besides,an overall investigation is made on the reasons of modifying the original version,the changes made to the original version,the cover drawings,illustrations,abstracts,prefaces,introductions,and simplified characters and version type etc.At the same time,a thorough investigation is made about the adaptation strategies of different artistic styles at different times.The basis of above effort leads to the conclusion that these writers and playwrights produced the revolutionary knowledge that the readers need through cultural symbols and revolutionary image system in the special context.Although the cultural capital changes in significance in the different contexts,the essential core remains the same.In short,"17-Year" war novels of phenomenon of textual genetics,as a process which the truth and classics are produced,practiced,spread and utilized,still has its role to play in constructing the core socialist value system.So the research will always be in an ongoing state. Moreover,the transformation of artistic forms,the involvement of the mass media,the excavation of new materials and the removing the ban on files of authors and works,as well as the reproduction of oral history will bring more interpretation space to the study.Therefore,in the concluding section,possibility and tentative plan are pointed out on the re-utilizing 'red resources' and the construction of contemporary philology in the current context.
Keywords/Search Tags:"17-Year" war novels, Phenomenon of textual genetics, Modification of versions, Artistic adaptation, Modified version
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