Compare The Sense Of Loneliness Of Bai Xianyong's And Joyce's

As a writer, BaiXianyong was born in china but his nationality is America,Joyce did best in stream of consciousness, both of them were the literatural wonder in the world. In all of their works, Bai Xianyong's《Taipei People》and Joyce's《Dubliners》were similar, they both took a city which they had stayed as the background, vividly depicted the various phenomena of urban colony at one particular age, lustrous and dazzling urban life, all manner of man and memories which were special and hard to forget, displayed the profound theme of life and history. They analysed the spirit of age and nation ,emotion of people in the modern city in the sharp outlook at the high level of history and philosophy and society.《Taipei People》and《Dubliners》both perspectived the special felling of loneliness in particular cultural colony and reveal the historical and realistic roots when described the urban colony and their complicated life and destiny. This dissertation makes deeply parallel comparison between Bai Xianyong'sense of loneliness and Joyce's, launch a series of research from the formation and variation and roots of loneliness, reveal unrational angles of view they have in the transition of society and feelings of loneliness and alienation in fantastic reality and merciless time of figures in their novels, further rethink tradition and torture today and look ahead, pay close attention to people's feeling and existence and learn from their loneliness with humanitarianism . For one thing, this dissertation concretely survey and compare Bai Xianyong'sense of loneliness and Joyce's based on the novels, for another it compare the cultural difference between Chinese and the Western in the angles of sociology and culture, then discuss the way to get rid of loneliness based on Fromm's"love theory"in the angle of anthropology, although Bai Xianyong and Joyce don't point a clear way to get rid of loneliness in their novels, they both give expression to"love", Bai Xianyong takes pity on Taipei people with respect and understanding and concern, he loves Taipei people in his novel who struggle to get rid of history and destiny with concern of humanitarianism ,as the same to Joyce, he loves Ireland and loves Dubliner deeply, by way of Dubliners'epiphany to arouse the nation consciousness and temperament come around. Ideas guiding creation in literature and art lead the two writers gain eternal life in art when they reveal the feeling of loneliness in the aspects of nation and humanity and culture.