Research On The Variational Rhetoric Of Mu Shiying’s New Sensation Fiction

Mu Shiying, the pioneer of new sensation novel, by depicting the abnormalmodern society and the deformed metropolis custom,he brings to readers a kind ofreading and aesthetic experience, the senses of which is full of confusion,vulnerability and extremalization. Especially through using the variant speech forms,he displays the human nature’s scream and fearless struggles under the context of oldmorals breakup,which subverts the traditional literary language system, shows anunique writing styles, gives readers a strong feeling of shock and amazes the wholeliterary circles. Therefore Mu Shiying is considered as the "giant of novels ofne-sensualism’’,just like the meteor, shotting across the modern Chinese literarycircles brightly.Based on the Variational Rhetoric of Feng Guangyi and the Chinese Stylistics ofLi Yunhan as the main theoretical framework, and meanwhile by using the relevanttheories and research results of Literature,Aesthetics and Psychics for reference, thepaper has mainly applied the rhetorical analysis of the combination of quantitative andqualitative as well as the combination of description and explanation to discuss andreveal the deviated rhetoric of Mu shiying’s new feeling novels systematically. Thecombined variation rhetoric and the aggregated variation rhetoric are presented first tosurvey the main forms of novel variation rhetoric.Then, from the angle of speech style,this paper probes into the deviancy of the novel’s speech styles, such as the vulgar,gorgeous,flexible speech style, and the relationship between this deviancy and the useof this variation rhetoric. Finally, the paper seeks for the comprehensive source of thedeviated rhetoric in Mu Shiying’s new feeling novels,combining the author’sspecificity of subjective and objective factors like the survival experience andlanguage mastery, emotion and temperament,creational concept and aesthetictendencies, rhetoric subject and the context, the receive subject and conveyed object.As Mu Shiying has been emphasizing on depicting feelings and pursuing theemotional and sharping language efficacy, therefore his new feeling novels indicate anunusual variation. He uses those variable language forms to describe Shanghai,a city with a befuddled life under the feasting and revelry and the upside down of peopleand demon because of ostentatiousness and degeneration. And the practice proves thatsuch kind of originative linguistic form suits appropriately to write the particularobject of Shanghai, the discordance of which forms after the spreading ofmodernity and the collision of eastern and western cultural thoughts, bringing out thebest in form and content,language and quality.