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A Study Of Mo Yan's Creative Writingfrom The Perspective Of Folklore

Posted on:2011-09-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C FangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360308465524Subject:Literature and art
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Mo Yan is a famous contemporary Chinese writer who has created more than 10 long novels, nearly 30 novelettes; over 70 short stories and several reportages and various essays. In his writing career, greatness of quantity, quality and influence is rarely seen among contemporary writers.As for school education, Mo Yan didn't study a lot before his youth. He dropped out of school without graduating from primary school, entered the big melting pot of society and became a real farmer. He lived at the bottom of rural society and encounter different kinds of people .His first lesson in social life was formed by the folk culture experienced from producing and living. Life experience accumulated from social classroom has cultivated the fertile soil for his future literary creation.This paper consists of four parts: the ideological characteristics of Mo Yan's folk creation; the language features of Mo Yan's folk creation; the motivation f Mo Yan's folk creation; the modern meaning of Mo Yan's folk creationThis paper analyzes the origins and development status of Mo Yan's folk creation. Mo Yan's writing inherited from some of the traditional local literature. It is also a breakthrough and creation of traditional Native literature having its own flavor of the times. Three sections of the exploring and the development of Mo Yan's folk writing are discussed. Between1981 to 1984 is the imitation searching period of Mo Yan's folk writing. Between1985to 1996 is the outbreak period of Mo Yan's folk writing. From 1997 till now is the further exploration of Mo Yan's folk writing. Each stage shows different aesthetic characteristicsThe ideological contents of Mo Yan's "Folk Writing" theory are: Mo Yan's writing is private, "for the people writing"; Mo Yan's "Folk Writing" is a sincere self-describe "personality" of writing; Mo Yan's "Folk Writing" not simply write rural life, also write city life. Mo Yan's "private writing" for its unique aesthetic and cultural forms to resist the ideology of self-writing is the fate of the rich cultural atmosphere of the critical spirit, and thus with the traditional "folk form" reflects a different spirit. Meanwhile, Mo Yan's folk writing also express his thinking to on social development.The most external form of Mo Yan's folk writing is language. Mo Yan's writing language is from civil; the process of creation expressed hearty pursuit of the pleasure of language leading to language is more importance than the story. Thereby a "Mo Yan-style" language is created.Theory of the formation of Mo Yan folk writing has its own rules. He comply with contemporary literary criticism and the development trend of holding "people's writing as" banner, never conscious to conscious folk writing. From the creative material of choice, to "high-density rural northeast," the construction of geographical space of literature reflects his creative personality. In this context, the private creation of mind constantly is deepening.Hometown childhood memories of beauty and ugliness of the intertwined, on the hopes and disappointments of urban civilization, making Mo Yan's writing is not just writing their own folk, folk culture is the complexity and diversity of author's personal life experience of unity. Writing in the pursuit of civil process, Mo Yan's unique life of self-expression of emotional experiences Because the experience and creative pursuit of Mo Yan, the folk writing will naturally have a modern outlook, with a modern literary and spiritual values. His works reflect identity, criticize and transcend the civil society and modern society, and found the history of the modern civil spirit and the depth of relations between the living statesMo Yan's private writing, precisely because the eyes down the folk idea, folk vision attracted worldwide attention in the eyes. Therefore, for the case of Mo Yan's "Folk Writing" regularity, and his experience in dissemination of literary flourish, to the prosperity of present literary creation has important theoretical and practical significance...
Keywords/Search Tags:Literature creation, Perspective of folklore, language, Characteristics, motivation
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