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Analysis Of The City-village Literature And The Figures Of Employers

Posted on:2008-03-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F J MengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215453634Subject:Literature and art
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In Chinese contemporary and modern literature, there has been a long tradition of rural writing, in which there were so many great works born. On the contrast, it is not continuous in urban matter writing. The reasons of this state are complex, which we can't make it clear in this article. However in the process the urbanization accelerating, urban matters are more and more important choice to writers than ever before. Learners'study on rural and urban literature also has a long history. On the accelerating process of China's urbanization, city-village literature, which narrate the stories of images between cities and villages, arises and develops prosperously, the same time as urban writing booming.Strictly, communication of cities and villages are parts of the process of urbanization. Therefore, to some degree, city-village literature has the character of rural literature and also appears urban atmosphere. However, neither of them could contain city-village literature's unique aesthetic characters.After long period of development, writing of a matter tends to some similar aesthetic frameworks. Take rural matter for example, we try to sum up its aesthetic frameworks like this: 1. Modern criticism on rural life. Thought Styles of traditional agricultural life, crashed by modern commercial and democratic thoughts, appears closed and behind times. Therefore, modern criticism on rural environments becomes an important theme of this matter. Another, the closed environments and outdated thoughts always result in human tragedies, which seems heavier than it used to be, under the modern criticism. 2. Nostalgic writings against modern criticism. Paradox of modernization could not make sure that every individual embraces and upholds it convincingly. As the modern industry, trade, democracy progressed swiftly, social circumstances may take on such a mess state as that moral standard becomes lower and lower, thoughts of profits lingers in human mind, charge of rights leads to confusion and so on. In that background, the nostalgic writings of pasture, human nature and still villages can be seen as important act to protect the spiritual aspects of modernization, and also as hard challenge to the deficiency of modernization. This kind of feeling style is often seen in the rural works. 3. Seeking the cultural sources of our people by staring at rural daily incidents. In the rural environments, excellent part or ugly part are both embodied in the common trifles, which greater writers bear their great patience to describe about. With their deeply thinking, they undertake to worry about our people.Similarly, city-village literatures have some aesthetic characters in common:1. On the structure, while employers haven't steady vocations, their experiences are like floats. With their vagrant steps, structures of these novels are always the vagrant style. On the fate mode, most of these figures finish their urban experiences unsuccessfully and tragically. Some of them seem to accomplish their dream in the cities, and become parts of city. However, their inner experiences are really moved and even hurt.2. Reasons for most of employers'leaving hometown are more or less mentioned or analyzed on flank. In the papers we summarize four reasons like this: Firstly, in Chinese tradition cultures, cities take higher position than villages in people'mind all the time. After the Reformation and Open, that demicilary control system changed greatly as well as urban industry and trade calls for more free employers, many people from villages crowned to cities to earn their livings. Their choices are decided subjectively and objectively. Secondly, employers from farmland bear successful dreams which are told again and again in modern times. They are eager to gain success in order to go back to their hometown honorably someday. Thirdly, most figures of employers are juveniles who have in the age from young to adult. Socialist names the age as"social ablactation". In this special age, people face the social with treachery mind and they doubted about old fashioned moral standards. Also people bear innocent dreams to their future. Their treachery mind and dreams instructed their roads to cities. Lastly, employers from countryside to cities mainly intend to solve their economical traps. As farmland becomes less and less in the country, only by coming to cities to take more jobs, people can earn their family's living.Of course, every works differs from one another, the common trends of the matter show similar aesthetic characters. However, every works differs from one another, so as every figure does. When we comment on these works and figures, to keep narrative styles and figures analysis in mind at the same time will take us to a better comprehension of these works.Modern narrative studies esteem narrative aspects and performance of narrators. In the paper, I divided narrators in the city-village literature into all-known style and limited style, then analysis the relations among writer, narrator and main figures, on which we seek for the writer's value standards and the successful figures that the novels has created.Through the aesthetic analysis of the common characters, successful figures and narrative methods, we drew to the concept of city-village literature which will help to recognize modern literature and promote the development of modern literature. There is still great space to probe in the city-village literature. I hope that, in the construction of modern literature, this paper may cause more and more learners'mention.
Keywords/Search Tags:City-village
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