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On The Southern Complex In Su Tong 's Novels

Posted on:2015-02-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y TangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330431974670Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Writing began in the1980s, Su Tong has published full-length novels and short stories that nearly3million words, which acclaimed widely in the contemporary literary world.He put the south where he once lived (mainly in Suzhou and Nanjing) as the Creation object and writing background, put people,events and people’s feeling of the south as the main content, especially like to write the old street of south with the complex emotions that mixed love-hate--Xiangchunshu street (later).Making a general survey to Su Tong’s creative achievements which has last for more than20years, from his masterpiece "mulberry field as a souvenir" which published in1987to his full length novel "the river" that won several awards including "Chinese literature media award" in2009, the most notably place in his novel is his poetic imagination and unique deconstruction to the south.The South, is no longer belongs to the traditional significance, also is more than homeland in real world, but has become a kind of slowly precipitated psychological memory, exists in the deep consciousness of Su Tong, points to the person’s spiritual and suggests people’s spiritual pursuit.Behind the contradictory tension between writer and the south, the essence is the desire and pursuit of inner spiritual homeland. Associate to the author’s childhood experience, life experience and aesthetic ideal, it is not difficult to find that the south was as a landmark to guide the writer and the reader back to the hometown of "spirit".For imagine of personal mind about the south world, Su Tong arrived not geography and potential stipulation of history, but the individual’s most essential understanding on life.Paper is divided into four parts to describe Su Tong’s love knot to the south in his novel.First of all, gives a simple overview to Su Tong’s novel from1987to2009, combining previous research to interpret the reason of selected topic and content design.First chapter aims to analyze the complex causes about The south plot in Su Tong’s novel, mainly from the influence of Su Tong’s growth experiences and literature edification, through the author’s experiences and the characteristics of the Jiangnan literary tradition to illustrate the source of south love knot and its unique expression in Su Tong’s novel.The second chapter mainly start with the perspective of the text to analyze the south love knot in Su Tong’s novel, from the emotion, image aspect excavate the potential southern temperament in his novel,and by transverse longitudinal comparison with other writers in southern writing to illustrate Su Tong "southern writing "style and unique charm.The third chapter analysis the connotation of south love knot in Su Tong’s novel, on the basis of analyzing in this paper, make a concrete discussion of what Su Tong’s novel shows from theme to the narrative style, as well as from the inside out of the southern temperamentStretched out the spirit connotation of south love knot in Su Tong’s novel in the perspective of regional culture,thus, from outside to inside, progressively distinguished to analysis and study of Su Tong’s novel, make the south love knot in Su Tong’s novel is particularly clear and unique, as a kind of emotional condensate, shows the pursuit of spiritual hometown in the subconscious.The last chapter discusses gain and loss of the south love knot in Su Tong’s novel, by compared with the traditional southern literature to find his unique feature, affirmed its contribution to the regional culture--provides a unique interpretation of the Jiangnan aesthetic, but at the same time in the era of generational comparison points out its historical limitations, and perspective the spirit of a generation of writers, examine the writing significance and prospect of contemporary literature, and do some exploratory thinking, provide the present writing a little reference and suggestion.
Keywords/Search Tags:Su Tong, The south, love knot, regional
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