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The Comparative Study On Female Consciousness And Humanity Care Of TieNing's And Lessing's Novels

Posted on:2010-06-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J J YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278975500Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Tie Ning, the writer regarded as the backbone character of women's literature in China's new era and Doris Lessing, the 2007 Nobel Literature Prize winner from Britain, are both authors with wide influence in their countries. Their novels care for female's life and historic destiny, and express a kind of female consciousness with gender commonality in women's physical, psychological and spiritual world exploration. Meanwhile they extend the observation and thought of female to concern of living conditions for humans, survey of beautiful and ugly human nature, and obtain spiritual resonance in humanity exploration and spirit sympathy. In the way of parallel comparison, the dissertation make a parallel study on the two Sino-Western representative female writers-Tie Ning and Doris Lessing in a way of feminist consciousness and human care, and uncover the match point of feminist consciousness and human care in their works, and reflect the Ideological point of women's survival, development and humanity in the background of different socio-cultural, dissect the cultural characters, artistic expression and development direction of Sino-Western women's literature, in order to promote the exchange and interaction of Sino-Western women's literature and communicate the spirit links of women's literature through out the world. The paper includes three chapters, the first one"Tie Ning in the country world and Lessing under the political banner"elaborated separately on Tie Ning's and Lessing's lives and their unique countryside complex and political feelings in the background of Sino-Western women's literature development, to discuss the art individuality and creation background of two writers, and find similarities and differences between them. The second chapter"The female consciousness and art construction of Tie Ning and Lessing"revealed the two writers'common concern of women's spiritual world, the pursue of ideal female personality and looking forward to the new gender relations model by comparing Tie Ning and Lessing's hope in careing for women's destiny, invesgating women's psychology and build ideal gender relations. The third chapter"The humanity care and aesthetic signs of Tie Ning and Lessing"mainly discussed the deep humanity care expressed in their novels. They realize their spiritual pursue by tasting the ugly of humanity, searching the origin of humanity and calling for the ideal modern personality. Seeing in the way of two writers'overall creation, Tie Ning and Lessing don't have direct communication, and they live in different social environment and cultural background with different life and emotion experience. But in the study, we see their good feelings about women even human beings and dedicated watch of perfect harmony, which makes the content and ideas of their novels across their respective borders and times, achieved a kind of connection of culture and spirit, and their extraordinary works are landmarks in women's literature of the world.
Keywords/Search Tags:Tie Ning, Doris Lessing, novels comparative study, the female consciousness, the humanity care, art construction
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