A Study On The Characteristics Of Modernity About Lin-Huiyin's Works

The definition and description about the characteristics of modernity is one of the basic questions in Chinese modern literature history. This thesis tries to discuss the individual writer's understanding and echo to modernity in the context of Chinese modern literature as an example to Lin-Huiyin's writing and herself. Lin-Huiyin is a famous talented lady in the history of Chinese modern literature. She is also the first woman architect in the Chinese modern history. Meanwhile she is a critic who has her own thought and taste in literature and an active participator in the literary activities. Lin-Huiyin is not a typical modernist writer, but her works has obvious characteristics of modernity. This thesis tries to interpret her modernity which has not attracted researchers' much attention. It will analyze her works (including poems, novels, essays, drama), and consider the Xinyue school and Beijing school's impact on her in the background that the Chinese and western culture makes a tremendous impact on her. So we can have comprehensive omni directional discussion about the characteristics of modernity on Lin-Huiyin's works.This thesis consists of five parts:I .Introduction: Summaries Lin-Huiyin's life and creation; Defines the concept of modernity;II .Chapter One: In the background that the Chinese and Western culture's double impact on her, discusses her literary thought's modernity demands;III.Chapter Two: Analyze the aesthetic meaning in the perspective of Lin-Huiyin's creation;IV.Chapter Three: Expounds the modernity skills from the artistic features of Lin-Huiyin's works;V .Conclusion: Summaries the characteristics of modernity on Lin-Huiyin's works; Evaluates her and her creation's significance in the history of Chinese modern literary.