Scholars And Their Images Of The Historical Novel In The Thirties

In 1980s, modern historical novels appeared quite booming. Lots of novelists with different ideas devoted their lives to the theme and interested in figuring the archaic scholars. In the opinion of modern person, they observed historical situation and tried to explain it with historical novels. In the course of contrasting history and the present age, novelists found the consanguineous relations concerning spirit and moral between the scholar and themselves. In that painful period, modern intellectuals had great passion for polity, which inherited the scholar's spirit that means worry before the people and enjoy after the people. Intellectuals begun to change their extreme culture position that existed in The May 4th Movement universally and commenced the culture communication of the eastern and the western deeply.The first chapter analyses the types appearing in the novels, Confucian oracles, tacticians, person of ideals and integrity died in a disaster, civilian scholars. Novelists were not only uncovering their weaknesses but also praising the spirit of holding personality, however, magnificent national moral integrity had been represented dramatic specially. These are the will to shaping self-value when our nation incurred tragedy.The second chapter narrates the reasons for the appearance of scholar in the novels. Novelists made great efforts to look for the medium to express their feeling and remedy the situation of alogia. They exhumed the tradition of caring nation and civilians and found the possibility of self-fulfillment. Meanwhile, the especial relations between archaic scholars and polity made modern intellectuals formed the political imagine with logistic point.The third chapter analyses the art technique of figuring characters. Novelists inherited the allegorical tradition and altered the settled pattern that existed in the historical novels persistently. They adopted mental depiction to rebuilding the style of historical novels. Through changing narration angle and managing irony and symbol, the relations of history and truth were deepened. But authors detected gradually that the room of communication and operation of modern spirit is limited under the historical theme. They couldn't breakthrough the localization that be inherent in historical character and situation. Once the breakthrough emerged, those works must be lost the meaning of literary and aesthetic.