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History Of The Spoken Language Surviving Resources

Posted on:2004-05-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R J HanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360092999323Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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History of the Spoken Language Surviving Resources.——On the Surviving Significance of Folk History in Moyan's Novels.Moyan's novels create a complete rural folk community. History here, means not only the past events, more importantly, their created resourses novelized of survival after selection and knitling. The desserlation attempts to explore the surviving significance of folk history presented in Moyan's novels. Also, it researches into the influence of his realization the above-mentioned point on both his writing of new historical hovels and the representation of the rural folk community.The dissertation consists of two parts besides the preface and summary.The preface mainly points out the novelists awareness of surviving sginficance of the folk history, which is represented in his writing.The first part of the body is about the transition form of the folk history. It first specifies the notion of folk history, then analyes the various transition forms of folk history in the Dongbei Gaomi. The history transmission here depends on verbal activities rather than orthography records. Thus, it has the property of changebility throughout time and space, which makes the constant processing possible to meet the expectation of the folks. This, in turn is favorable for its survival among them. And the folk history becomes the folks surviving resources.The second part of the body is about the surviving significance of the folk history, which is made up of six sections meaning to explore the surviving significance of folk history in Moyan's novels. 1. Rescource of freshness. Villagers in Dongbei Gaomi choose the fantastic stories and spectacles and process the common historical incidents to produce legendary historical stories, which they tell repeatedly. This has added surprise to their lives. The historical characters who here behaved in an unusual way provide them with the ideas of seeking freshness and changes. The historical stories here have been the resource of freshness to the people.2. Memory and struggle.The course of the spreading of the historical heroes andevents among the folks is also a course of legendization. This enables the folk historical heroes to have super-man courage and sacrifice, which in turn causes the man brave in action worship and imitate. The precedences in the history of Dongbei Gaomi always inspire the followers to struggle againt the suppressor.3. Crcticism and rebirth. The accumulation of history is the foundation and beginning of today's life, though it also includes the obstacles which hinder the develogment of history and produces the factor of self-inhibition. This impels those who are energetic to crcticize the history and start a new life. 4. nostalgia and belonging.Through seeking the creation history and magnificent achievements of their ancestors and looking back at the soures of their survival, the insignificant individuals find their outstanding identities in the ever-flowing time. The villages connected with the past events become the place where they always want to stay.5. Home for the spirit. In the seriously difficult living conditions, the villagers in Dongbei Gaomi, as the weaker, keep struggling for the living and they make up a series of historical stories to show their ideal, so that they build a home for the spirit. To do so, they change the facts mercilessly and turn to the ghosts and monsters for help to intervene the development of the historical stories, so that those historical stories could meet their ideal.6. An immortal process. To the villagers in Dongbei Gaomi, there are no heaven but history. If one is lucky enough to be the character in the historical story told by the villagers, he would be memoried for ever. Here, history has become a process for them to overstep mediocrity and insignificance.In Moyan's story, he works as a teller, but not as an author, to express his positive and preserved attitudes towards the sense of historical stories' existing.The conclusion mainly tells that Moyan realiz...
Keywords/Search Tags:Surviving
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