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Explore Modernity Of Chinese Fiction

Posted on:2012-11-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330335464237Subject:Literature and art
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New Fiction which is the first milestone in the long process from tradition to modern Chinese novel, played an Important role in "fiction revolution of Late Qing", reflecting the innovation will in Late Qing。In the late Qing, both social practice and literature revealed the pursuit of innovation.Then, fiction upgraded to leading role of Literature with depending on Political power. This Paper attempts to describe the abstract issue of "the modernity of Chinese fiction" with New Fiction as cases of study, searching modern fiction traces left by the road.Expressed in the discourse of the old and new hybrid, the New Fiction magazine highlights two major highlights:above all, the "new fiction" magazine began to genre classification standard for the fiction,since that time,fiction type of subject matter to begin a bold attempt so to break the traditional boundaries of style. This new point make everything into the fiction. Second, the new novelists of Late Qing show a new literary imagination for readers, which is an obvious suspicion and challenge for Supernatural Beings and traditional view of the world. Affected by the Western, the new novelists accept Evolution as true that become the basis of the new concept of space-time, simultaneously, science and politics had evolved into the main foundation for the world to imagine the future. However, theoretical aspects of the novel is very obvious contradiction between traditional and modern.Advocates of "fiction revolution of Late Qing" pay more attention to the social value of the fiction, so there were a lot of misunderstand-ing on the traditional fiction and western fiction, yet this entanglement of traditional and mode-rn, Chinese and Western, contained a wide range of tension.
Keywords/Search Tags:New Fiction, fiction, modernity, fiction concept, fiction type, literary imagination
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