Using Legend To Express Reality-To Unscramble Li Bihua And Her Works

As some female writers of Taiwan , Li Bihua, who is an accomplished writer at the literary world in Hong Kong, is always considered a romantic fiction writer. she is very much accomplished in the descriptions of affections with romantic,exquisite,enthusiastic,uncanny,secretive,and pitiful colour , and her descriptions is much acclaimed in the field. Nevertheless, Li Bihua's works isn't constrained by rigid limits of the ordinary patterns of romantic fictions, and historical,social,aesthetic,and philosophical intentions are contained within her works. Show originality, her works with unique feature found the third road between belles-lettres and consumptive culture. By analyzing the characteristics of the perspectives and the descriptions in Li Bihua's works, we can see that the works exhibited the social scene and the value tropism of the present age, and represented the unique consciousness of Hong Kong under the background of the special and miscellaneous cultural pedigree of Hong Kong.By discussing the legendary narrative and the masterstroke of the rewriting of the traditional text in Li Bihua's literary creation, the thesis makes an attempt at to summarize the established practice character of her works'legendary narrative and generalize simultaneously the main pattern of the rewriting of the traditional text. Before studying the questions given above, firstly, the thesis discuss the form and features of the creative mentality and the conscious structure and then expect to unscramble roundly Li Bihua and her works through a combination of the creative mentality, the conscious factor and the unique writing style of the writer.Firstly, Li Bihua's life experience and the special social environment had a great effect on the form and development of her creative mentality, especially her childhood offered a lot of materials and inspiration to subsequent literary creation. Her childhood lived in such the unbending old family that her works always exposed the evil humanity. Amusement literature of Hong Kong was the mainstream and serious literature belonged to marginal status at the time, so it compelled Li Bihua to think how she can cater for popular interests by virtue of unique thought. Therefore, we can see the age and life of ourselves from Li Bihua's ancient stories and praise labyrinthian story scenario, which is characterized by familiarity and strangeness ,and then are attracted at all times.Depending on the creative mentality, we can summarize the conscious structure of Li Bihua's literary creation. That is, rewriting the character of the legend, she described the incertitude consciousness and the illogicality consciousness by repeating constantly good luck, foreordination, recurrent history. Otherwise, comprehending or locating the analytical characterization of Chinese civilization, her works embody the Hong Kong's intellectuals'the principal part imagination of"culture China"and the desired pursuing conscious by affirming culture identity.Li Bihua's works, which are a series of urban legends with unbending and internecine, breached the limits of traditional novel narrative and exhibited the unique legendary characteristic. See the sentence given above, we can see her works'characteristic with double aspects, that is, the time is ignored or spanned in the narrative and the space is switched between reality and delusion. The space time switch given above embodies mainly the rewriting of the traditional text. The rewriting modes include primarily in terms of the following three aspects: The development of the story scenario is spread in virtue of the new breach which is found in the traditional text; Character's destiny is showed between preexistence and this life in virtue of metempsychosis which is exploited the story space; The expressive force of character's story is enhanced in virtue of metaphor and reference. Furthermore, it is romanticism technique that is an important technique which reflect reality by means of legend in Li Bihua's works. Not only does she inherit the characteristic of the traditional romanticism, but she adds lots of new connotations to romanticism. For example, preexistence and this life exists in her works, and hero legend and mythology are rewritten. Show originality, she adds some new artistic techniques, which include magic subjects, the space time switch of modernism, stream of consciousness etc., to romanticism so that Li Bihua's works have strong attraction and readability.Li Bihua's works'are characteristic of abundant connotations and profound themes, and the writer is very much accomplished in writing technique. Therefore, we can think that she had already found the third road between belles-lettres and commercialized writing. She describes legendary character, legendary affection, and求legendary destiny with a supernatural pen, but her works'connotations shows that readers are familiar with realistic mentality and existence state.