On The Childhood Disposition Of Su Tong's Novels

Su Tong, as the significant representative writer of the pioneers and one of the founders of "neo-historicism" novel, contributed to the forming of modern Chinese literature. He has issued more than 3,000,000 words up to now. His novels are rich in the southern literature flavor, dense culture imagery, many complicated plots and depressing sentimentality, etc. On account of above merits, Su Tong's novels earn him the broad acclaim from critics and readers for a long time. After the deep research, there is a finding in Su Tong's novels that is about the childhood disposition. Because of the importance of the childhood disposition, this paper talks about it on it's producing reasons, text represientation and text meanings. The paper consists of three parts which are introduction, body and conclusion. The introduction outlines the features of Su Tong's novels and the text meanings of the childhood disposition. The body is the focus of the article, it contains three chapters:Chapter I explains the reasons of the childhood disposition existing in Su Tong's novels. The first thing is to find out the identity between Su Tong's novels,the childhood disposition and Su Tong's childhood experiences ,for clarifying the real being of the childhood disposition and the relativity between Su Tong's novels and Su Tong's childhood. The second thing is to show the reasons of forming the childhood disposition, linking to Su Tong's autobiography. There are two main reasons which are inner one and outer one. Both of reasons contributed to birthing and growing of the childhood disposition.Chapter II gets into the specific analysis to the text. There are two parts in this chapter. One is the text representation of the childhood disposition; the other is emotional characterization about it as well. The first part mainly shows the expression of the childhood disposition in different Su Tong's novels. The second part displays the principal three features of the childhood disposition.Chapter III analyzes the text meanings of the childhood disposition. There are three parts in this chapter, which are tending to tragedies, helping aesthetic sentiment and revolting to the former history and culture. They illuminate the meanings of the childhood disposition from several different angles. It is an undeniable fact that the childhood disposition has a great effect on forming a distinctive style for Su Tong's novels.The conclusion part places the childhood disposition in the developing trace of Chinese contemporary literature macroscopically, for giving a value judgment and pointing out the art advantages and disadvantages of the childhood disposition.