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Women 's Writing In Lin Yutang' S Novels

Posted on:2015-02-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T T LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330431957302Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In modern literary history, Lin Yutang was a rare male writers with female worship ideas.He paid special attention to female world, promoted the modern conception of women’s liberation and, equality between men and women. He put the female writing as the focus of novel creation, in the conviction that women are good ideas, which was based on family, shaped the ideal female image of his heart, showing the colorful world of women. Group of women were the novel protagonist of Lin Yutang, was also a beautiful scene. They not only had talents beautiful appearance, but also respected personality and personality, and found the way to achieve their own life value. Therefore these female characters were not only the author’s ideal women, but also the key factors to understand the novel female aesthetics, and inner changes of cultural ideal.This text is divided into four parts:Chapter1. The origin of the concept of women and the inner rheological concept of cultural thoughts. The first section of this chapter introduces the origin of women view:Firstly, the projection of the emotional experience, the most important four women in Lin Yutang’s life could not be ignored to the deep influence on him, led to the construction of Lin Yutang’s unique view of women directly; Secondly, Chinese classical literature 《Dream of red mansions》, which was one of the important revelation to form Lin Yutang’s female view; Thirdly, Lin Yutang lived abroad who was edified by the advanced western feminism and the sex concept which was the indirect reasons for the formation of feminism. At the same time, the second section of this chapter analyzes the internal changes of cultural ideal hided under the women concept of Lin Yutang, to find the soul conversion for the miscellaneous ideology as well as for Lin Yutang’s view on women. Chapter2. The colorful women’s world. From the female image of the intuitive, Lin Yutang’s women can be divided into three types, namely, traditional, modern and ideal type. Although these women image was colorful, but their shapes were based on Lin Yutang’s unique female view. Their sum constituted the whole of Lin Yutang’s view on women.Chapter3. The unique style of writing women. There was a kind of harmony and beauty about writing women in the novel of Lin Yutang, mainly reflected on the expression of emotion, on the coordination of relations between characters, and the aesthetics of ideal woman.The harmonious scene formed a unique style for female writing in the novel of Lin Yutang.Chapter4. The value of female writing and limitations. Compared with other male writers in the contemporary, Lin Yutang really focused on women, his unique female writing not only made women from text edge to the center of the text and realized for women, but also thought of the deviation of west feminist movement and make effective solutions in the novel. However, the women view of Lin Yutang was no lack of saving grace, but unavoidable to have some conservation. If, however, look from the communication between Chinese and western culture context, his retention and publicity is also understandable.
Keywords/Search Tags:Lin Yutang, novels, feminism, female image
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