The Unique Narration Of Country Stories

The academic field has always paid attention to the study of Shen Congwen. Since the New Period, the study on Wang Zengqi has been reinforced. But the scholars has not paid much attention to the comparative studies on Shen Congwen and Wang Zengqi. They two have an intimate teacher-student relationship and their works have strong comparative qualites. From the perspective of the angle of country writings and by using narratology and cultural studies, this thesis tries to make clear and analyze the narrative strategies and narration methods of the two writers' country works, with a view to probing the deep cultural psychological structure, related position and desire of narration, and unique narration space and structure art.This thesis contains three chapters.The First Chapter concentrates on narrative topic. Shen and Wang's novels always emphasize the character and life of country. Driven by the marginal psychology and influenced by the marginal perspective, their works are facing away from history. Meanwhile, both of the two writers choose to poetically describe the survival situation of the country life and the form of lives.The Second Chapter is directed to the narrative time and space of Shen and Wang's country novels. Through the illustration and analysis of such time and space forms as "Border town" and "Danao", the author tries to explain the two writers' enlightening stance and their standpoint of looking for the root, who intend to rescue the main current and the center through the margin and folk. Furthermore, through the discussion of the unique narration tense and the art of narration time, the thesis intends to explore their fancy for timelessness and their emphasis ontime-humanization.The Third Chapter focuses on the formation of the narrative structure of these two writer's novels. Shen and Wang's country novels extraordinarily and numerously apply the art of antithesis, especially the art of "former-later" antithesis. At the same time, they also stress the potential energy of novels' structure, which is fully testified to in The Border Town and The Story of Danao.