The Floating Brideg Leading To Literary Modernity

This thesis researches the literary transformable elements in the text of Six Chapters of a Floating Life, seeks the material approach and course with which the traditional literature achieve the creationary transformations, then we backdate the historical conditions which the text existed, to look for the societal cause of the transformations.Furthermore we try to open out the creationary transformations in the tradition literature in Ming-Qing times, and discourse the origin relations between the transformations and the contemporary literature.In the introduction, I clarify the research base and the route of the thesis.In the second chapter, I try to seek the literary transformable elements from the style characteristics in the text of Six Chapters of a Floating Life. The text span the style confine,and introduce the style of essay writing in the fiction. Expressing one's motions by fiction is a telling example of the trasformations in the traditional literature system .As the first autobiographical river novel, the intensification of the author main body consciousness, the changes in the produce motive and the aesthetic consciousness, these all represent some characters of the contemporary literatures.In the third chapter, I try to seek the literary transformable elements from the content characteristics in the text of Six Chapters of a Floating Life. The creationary transformations of expressing emotions traditions in Chinese classical literture achieve the special style of expression in Six Chapters of a Floating Life. Shen fu and his wife's elegent interests flare the blazes of the humanism the author dared to reflect the facts of their lives in the fiction,this makes it possess some realistic characters of the contemporary fictions.In the fourth chapter, I try to seek the literary transformable elements from the characters in Six Chapters of a Floating Life. The blazes of the humanism flare in the couple's minds.In the fifth chapter, I discribe the historical conditions in which the text existed, to look for the societal cause of the transformations. The emergence of these new elements was aroused by the literary thoughts in the late times of the Ming dynasty.