Symbol And Sense

This dissertation has explored the fiction's forms in Chinese mainland in the late 20^th century. The late 20^th century points the period of the eightieth and the ninetieth, in which the Chinese novels have achieved great development. This research is an ontological research, which is based on the analysis for the fictions' text. The task of this research is to explore the changes of fictions, and analyze the reasons for these changes during these twenty years. The name of the dissertation is SYMBOL AND SENSE, which means exploring the fictions' sense from the fictions' forms.This dissertation is composed by three parts, the first part is the introduction, the second part is the body, and the third is the conclusion.In the introduction part, the dissertation introduces the study's method, task, and some ideas so on. Especially, it explores the means of concepts of Form and Form Criticism, and puts forward the new definition of concepts and research methods, by absorption the research results of the Western formalist criticism theory and the Chinese classical literary theory. Thus, the research constructs a coordinate axis, the horizontal axis is to explore the theory of form criticism, and the coordinate axis is to explore the art history. By analysis of form's changes, the research explores the ability of novels to convey the human feelings.In the body part, the dissertation contains threes parts. The part 1 mainly discusses the novel form's changes in 1980s, the other two parts mainly discusses the novel form's changes in 1990s.Part 1 has four chapters, which study the Modernist writing techniques, roots literature, Vanguard Novel and neo-realistic novel. As a result, there has a change track from the narrative techniques to the narrative strategy. The changes in Vanguard Novel and neo-realistic novel thoroughly have changed the artistic concepts which had dominated in china for a long time, and have created a new landscape for contemporary Chinese fiction.Part 2 has three chapters, which mainly study the New historical novel, Wangsuo and Wang Xiaobo' novels, and the New age novel. In those novels, there are such features as the Fictional narrative, ridicule language, and expression of individual experience, which reflect that the novels in 1990s have impacted by the novels in 1980s.Part 3 has three chapters, which mainly study the Realism shock wave novel, Video novel, and network novel. In those novels, there is such feature as public popular aesthetic interesting, which reflects the novels in 1990s have impacted deeply by the market economic.During the body part, the dissertation has a basic research method. That is to say, it chooses the narrator as the first perspective to analyze the novel, which describes the existence of the narrator and the tone of voice. Then it analyzes the narrative structure, the language, the Characters, etc. Finally, it explores the spiritual world of the novels.In the conclusion part, the dissertation further summarizes the conclusions of the research, and further explored some problems discovered in the research.