| This thesis will study the western novels from the new period by the angle of edge area culture, and discuss the different narrate strategy about edge culture factors from area nature, religious culture, suffering life, modern anxiety and so on by western writers, and the literature value about literary writing of area culture since the new period. This thesis thinks that area features about western novels including two factors with stabilization and dynamism. Area nature is not only the background of western novels, but also is the narration principal function role of metaphor and symbolization. Romantic nature symbolizes the feature of people, opposition nature symbolizes the essential power of people, animal figures symbolize connotation of humanity and life, and the nation of ecological nation, all of these reflect the unique culture thinking of western novels about native area culture, it is this different from the novels of center and eastern area. Religious culture influences the minority literature, not only is the construction of many aesthetics symbols and aesthetics images, and expand of new aesthetics space, but also the religious culture gives the unique cultural direction to the western novels by unique cultural nations. Not matter the heart purification, the opposite bank, or sacred experiences, going back native nation, all of these are the important cultural features different from unreligious novels. Suffering experience theme of western novels, because of the unique economic, political, cultural backward of edge area and have the features with heaviness and signification. Suffering is the power of oppression to western people by daily life, historical remembering and cultural live, and the life style of revolt suffering surroundings, and the national character from the efforts of revolution, have the cultural enlightenment for save the suffering about western novels. The three themes are the stable area cultural background of western novels. With the developing of modernization, The western edge area goes into the surrounding of pre-modernization, modernization and post-modernity at the same time, faced the age problem, western writers sink into the paradox about recognition of modernization, This anxiety not only includes the different self-identity, and includes the different value judgment about country, city and country urbanization, city Suburbanized, but also includes the different life experiences about minority to conflict between modernization and nationality, the situation is western novels sink into the collective predicament about native narration. At last, the thesis wants to summarize and reflect the literary value and cultural enlightenment about western novel by compare the novels between eastern and western. |
