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On Novel Narration Discourse In The Cultural Context

Posted on:2010-12-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X A ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360275979791Subject:Literature and art
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The development in the Narration of contemporary novels is not a single literary phenomenon but very closely related with the cultural Context in contemporary China. In different period, the representative character of narration discourse and the birth of new narration discourse are both deeply related with the cultural context which they are in.In the 1980s, with the ideological liberation and the social reformation, the durance to thoughts and arts from ultra-leftist politics has been broken up. The central position of politics has been replaced by economic development. Along with the ideological liberation and western culture in burst, novel narration discourse has broken the previous modes in various ways, in order to get the independent character and aesthetic nature back into literature. Also, it shows strong critical and revolutionary features, reflects in bringing order out of chaos and novelty of the time change, which is the product of social and cultural context.The narrative discourse in 1990s gets a new development in the cultural context of diversification, secularization and aesthetic generalization .The vanguard narrative discourse gets the regulation from revolutionary to popularization. Individualized writing which pays more attention to the expression of private experience comes out and grows up. Description of Real life and daily life has become an important narrative strategy. These new changes are closely linked to the 90's culture changes: the cooling of "Cultural fever" and the rational consideration to western culture is the precondition to the change and adjustment of vanguard narrative discourse. The factor of readers and the commercial interests are also important to prompt this change. The individualized writing is prompted by diversified and opening cultural context, but its later development is influenced greatly by marketization and commercialization, losing its original significance. Secularization has led to changes in the writers' position, so that, as intellectuals, writers can describe the true life like civilians, which is the efficient amse to daily narrative coming out.Since the late nineties, China began to enter the consumption society and consumption culture has been formed. By the impact from consumption culture and mass media, the novel narrative discourse began to cater to fashion and was made to be the new fashion with distinct characteristic. Compared with the narrative discourse in traditional novel, the narrative discourse in internet novel reflects a great deal of openness, as well as highly entertaining to read and write real-time interactivity. These new features of narrative discourse fundamentally come from the new cultural context of aesthetic orientation diversity, as well as the entertainment by consumption culture.The development of narrative discourse in contemporary cultural context shows that it is rooted in the socio-cultural context. Also, the following conclusions can be got: 1,Literature is not only autonomic, but also heteronymous. 2,Only the open and free cultural context can contribute to the prosperity of novel, any close or ruled by a single ideological position of absolute authority can only make literature sag. 3,Novels should accept the impact of different cultures in a selected and suitable way, maintain its own independent personality while using theories and skills from outside. 4,in the changes of the cultural context, only faithful to the aesthetic and independence ,can novels maintain its lasting vitality.
Keywords/Search Tags:Cultural Context, Novel, Narrative Discourse
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