Scan Of Modern Times And Echo Of History

This thesis proceeds from the angle of modernity , places the historical novels of Guo Moruo in the context that the Chinese culture contrast with the Japanese culture , compare both of the complex and unique artistic world , which Guo Moruo and Jiechuanlongzhijie construct in their historical novels , probes the spiritual and artistic connections between their works and the Chinese or Japanese culture , analyses the dynamic effect which the element of oriental culture and western culture produces in the creation of the two writers .No matter the ideological intention or the artistic form is concerned, both of the two writers are qualified as the writers who enhance the modernization of Chinese and Japanese historical novels most strongly and deeply in literal history . They abandon the outmoded concepts that traditional historical novels excessively adhere to formal historical record , give free rein to their rich artistic imagination , adopt the daring fabrications and creations in their works based on historical subjects in order to express personal intention and feelings , hint personal ideal and wish ; Nevertheless they inherit the traditional cultural psychology of oriental nations of taking warning from history , regard history as the symbolization and hint of reality even future , instead of romanticizing the history just like the western writers of historical novels . The intense allegory constitute the strength of aesthetics of the novels, produce the strong sense of times and utilitarian effect directed against the reality. The ideological trends of individualism and humanitarianism are popular in the western society since the modern times. Oriental nations have the psychological tendency of valuing personal morality. Both of them combine the western ideological trends with the oriental psychological tendency; express certain suffering consciousness which contain specific intension of times. They explore the cream of national traditional culture, so that readers can show the approval and sympathy toward it in mind. However, they expose and criticize the dark sides of it which wrench human nature and hinder the advance of civilization depending on the scientific theory and idea , the emotion of humanitarianism and the historical sensibleness full of modernity , which show their courage and wisdom oflooking upon the national traditional culture dialectically . As for the artistic expression of their works, they mergethe oriental aesthetic habit of stressing plot with the technique of the western novels of stream of Consciousness,create a: series of novels of mentality, in which the flow of internal consciousness mingles with the advance of external plot, achieve "the orientalization of novels of stream of consciousness" in the'creation of historical novel. In a word, both of them advance the modernization process of internal historical novels depending on combining the modernization with the orientalization . The former is the core of value and internal essence of the latter; the latter is the way of realization and the external form of the former.However, the ideas of pragmatism guiding creation, which excessively values the political utility, hinder the Chinese modern writers who create historical novels including Guo Moruo from pondering deeply over the circumstances and value for individual existence. So their works lack of the pronounced and profound philosophical character, which engender the negative influence on the status of these historical novels in the history of Chinese modern literature.