| Saga novels are commonly imparted other social meanings, besides familial moral relationship, in both ancient literature and modern and contemporary literature in China. Because of the similarity between familial structure and social structure, the familial decline in those novels often indicates the disintegration of old system and withering away of the old era. Some modern writers, born in the beginning of 20th century, are influenced by the May fourth moral and familial revolution for individual sectionalism taking the place of familial sectionalism. They finally found a "grandfather-father-son" structure to build new system and spread new culture by inveighing against and smashing old system and culture. Ba Jin in his saga novels portrayed the subversion of "grandfather-father-son" structure to indicate the subversion of feudal family.The content of each part is as follows:The introduction is the brief description of the favor and practice of many modern writers to saga novels. Chapter I, "The disintegration of feudal familial system and the 'grandfather-father-son' structure", includes the background of the disintegration of feudal familial system and the analysis of feudal familial structure. Chapter II ,entitled " Ba jin and old familial system ", is the exploration of Ba Jin's writing experiences of his favorite saga novels. Chapter III and IV is the analysis of characters in each generation in Ba Jin's novels which includes grandfather, father and son as well as mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Chapter V is the explanation of "grandfather-father-son" structure in Ba Jin's saga novels. Chapter VI, "Characteristics of stylistic narration in Ba Jin's saga novels", includes narrative tactic, the common feature among generations and the eldest son's narrative. The conclusion is the evaluation on modern writers' using "grandfather-father-son" structure to implicate the disintegration of feudal familial system especially in Ba jin's saga novles. |
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