Lingering Between Person And God

Shen Congwen and Xiao Hong are among the experience-based novelists in Chinese Modern Times, whose sexual experience is inseparable from their thought and writings. This thesis applies some literature theories,such as Biographical Criticism Theory, Psychological Anthropology and Textual-analysis Theory ,to theoretically and practically prove that they hold the similar mode in thinking and creating inclination. The thesis also delimits their peculiar literature relationship between them in the analysis of their works and comparison with other Chinese Modern novelists.The thesis is divided into five parts. Part one emphasizes that Shen and Xiao, thanks to their life in the border of society and knowledge, experience similar art ego in the formation of their thought and their thinking mode, and thereby, the process of the formation register the similar thought and their thinking mode, that's to say, the primitive thinking mode and combination of life style and discourse .Part two makes an analysis and assessment of similarity mentioned above in their works in different phases of their life, with highlight of their transition and exalting from pursuit of sexual harmony to pursuit of the sublime of deity , via pursuit of ethics harmony. Part three compares them with other Chinese Modern novelists in thinking mode and creative inclination and further confirms their thinking and creativity common and their tendency special relevance in Modern Chinese literature history. Part four refutes various forced analogies between their thinking and a variety of Western ideology and the arguments, and on the other hand , carries out thorough expounding on godhood in their thought and works and relationship between the godhood and Chinese traditional culture by inquiring about their pursuit of God's implications from the angles of the Chinese traditional philosophy and the primitive ideological mode. Part five proves the points in the thesis in the analysis of Life-and-death field" and "border town"...