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Deconstructed Love Myth

Posted on:2008-09-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B F GuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215983263Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In contemporary Chinese literature, Zhang Jie is the only one writer winning Mao Dun Literature Awards twice. She is noticeable because of taking the course of its own in style of creating. Her early works reflect a strong sense of the complex ideological content and realistic critical spirit."The ideals of human progress and noble morality"is the spiritual backbone of these novels in this period, Zhang Jie has also molded a series of perfect men who accorded with traditional aesthetic value judgement, and some modern female images filled with the pursuit of the truth, the desire for the light and incomparable love of life. Zhang Jie treats the marriage love from the perspective of looking up with pure and bright soul, and creats holy and pure love story. Although the content of marriage and love is involved in her works, she expresses mainly the problems concerning societies and politics. And the so-called sex consciousness is not demonstrated apparently.In the early 1980s, the author explored the importance of political and economic independence to women's liberation. In her works, there were a lot of personalities, spirit and economical independent woman's images, having shown women as striving for the arduous course gone through in one's own liberation too, and embodying certain women's consciousness while creating. But after middle period of the eighties, in the novels female persistent pursuit for love and faith has no longer existed, men have become a manufacturer of women's spiritual agony. Author started to pay more attention to the complexity of human nature and excavation analysis of the human weaknesses of the male and female inside family, and also revealed that women were at a relentless psychological, behavioral absurd and extreme side. The authors examined the sexual relationship of family life, as well as her attention to the fate of women's position in this period。In Zhang Jie's novel, the male images molded have experienced several stages from the perfect men to be examined, finally to the moral and image reduced thoroughly. In her latter works, the utmost subversion, and curse to the masculine world demonstrated their feeling of despair completely The female image has also experienced the similar transformation from ideal masculine and love desire to the social status of women changed and marriage and love for deep reflection and analysis, in the past, women with a firm belief in the pursuit of love by some self-respect, self-reliance and self-improvement, who were replaced by the New images of women in the world far from the men. The author in the first 20 years of literature creation constructed a lofty ideal of the sanctity of love, and then deconstructed it.In the novel Without the Word, the author described pain marriages and the rough life experience through several generations of women of Wu Wei family, which has displayed the idea course of searching with hardship to the marital love. men behind The three generations of female of Ye family pushed them to the abyss of suffering, these men in personal fate, social, and political Multiple pressures survived difficultly, but they actively provoked into rescuing countries and the national destiny heavy burden, so their human nature distortion mainly caused by social history. And the author unified the human nature multiple ponder to character's criticism and to the historical culture, which achieved a higher level in the spirit of criticism and efforts.Zhang Jie's novels didn't transcend the experience of narrative and created too much from their own life experiences and emotional confusion limitations, but whether surmounting the experience is an important aspect of weighing the writer to create the boundary height. At the same time, her works have always permeated with "the contempt and rejection of itself" and the "sexual" distortion and smear. She described the purpose of the "ugly" and treated it as a tool to demonize men. Because the author has received the traditional "concept of chastity" while creating. In her works there were some male tendencies of women. The author of the traditional view of women and men conducted a thorough rebels based culture,the exposition,and Criticism male culture of inequality. But the "rebels" displayed more important in the thought idea and took sacrifices as the cost to the masculine standard, which denied the male and female difference and female's distinction, and was a female main body loss and digestion.
Keywords/Search Tags:Zhang Jie's novels, Characters Male Myths, Deconstruction, Narrative experience
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