On The Myth Of Contemporary Reconstruction

"The Myths"is a global cooperation project under the influence and birth of"New Deificationism"cultural trend by British Canongate publishing company in 2005,and has already published more than work,caused in the worldwide repercussions. The project based on the cross-cultural perspective concerns of globalization context,in a bid to explore the current significance of the ancient myths on the exchange platform of the East and West,carried on personal rewriting and transformation of the traditional classical mythology,the text of which thus has very clear"Contemporary Reconstruction"feature. As part of important branch and components of this system,"The Myths·Volume of China"four piece"Bi Nu","Hou Yi","Ren Jian"and"King Gesar"by the Chinese writer Su Tong,Ye Zhaoyan,Li Rui,A Lai effort to build,selected the story of four Chinese classical mythology,the myth of Meng Jiangnv wept over the great wall,Yi shot the Moon and Chang E flied to the moon,the Lady White Snake was reined and Gesar became king of Ling as repeat templates,deep drew the"digestion","no","suspect"overturn spirit in the postmodernism context,also on the trial and thoroughly insightful character of modern rational thought,in completing"The Myths"project"thesis composition"and also pushed Chinese contemporary myth reconstruction to a new level with the whole new forms of intrinsic value and experience. From the perspective of contemporary creation,mythology as the source and maternal-fetal of national culture,with the theme of great sanctity and richness to meet the lofty aspirations of contemporary writers,its call-structure of fragmentary and non-systematic form also provides a huge art interpretation space for the contemporary reconstruction , stimulates a possibility of new collision and harmony,is certainly an opportunity;on the other hand,long-term spread process of myth derivativing with classic meaning given to the various texts and the disappearance of the original"sacred narrative"means in current After Age of Mythology also make writers face tremendous pressures and challenges while the proliferation of myth resource and expanding repeat rewrite space. In this case,the interpretation,research and thinking of"The Myths·Volume of China"contemporary reconstruction,for guiding the writers how to better operate in the present cultural context,to make the old myths get repeated in the literature resurrection,has an important inspiration and reference.This paper attempts to start from the worldwide"rewrite"background in the post-modern cultural context,with work-analysis and close-reading in depth all the way into the restatement text inside,through the depth of analysis and interpretation of"The Myths·Volume of China"four works to research the meaning,value and possibility for myth reconstruction in the contemporary,with the host nation pain and human nature sink behind the genetic history and culture of myth as the starting point,to explore the internal relation of"The Myths·Volume of China"series of works in the formation mechanism and meaning generated,form a initial more closely research system,and strive to provide inspiration and reference for the myth contemporary reconstruction in a certain extent. The full-text content is divided into three parts,the first part is to clarify the terms of the discipline of"myth"in the general sense,including the definition of the concept of myth and sorting out its text creation historical development path and the evolutionary process,in order to get more comprehensive and basic understanding of the origin,development,evolution,stages and other aspects of myth in general;the second part based on the vision of current After Age of Mythology"The Myths·Volume of China"works for the key research object,from the rewriting text's art configuration and intrinsic building two aspects to focus on the subject of"myth"which has tremendous ancient sacred color in contemporary literature reconstruction's inheritance and digestion,then insert the study of classical mythology content such as"prototype","Motif","God trace",and the core content of narrative studies such as the temporal alternation,perspective changes,descriptions of text into them;the third part is mainly based on the first two parts to discuss the value and significance of the myth contemporary reconstruction,the writers seek the eternal divine eternal desire from the reflection of good and evil,rise and fall in human nature and the confusion of subversion and meteorite dead of the ancient sacred world,ultimately upon the rich intrinsic tips transcend time and space prompt a deep reference,alert and enlightenment toward"people"construction right now.