The Research Of Su Tong’s Novel Reception

As a one of the greatest writer on Chinese Contemporary Literature, Su Tong’s novels is closely related to many novels thought since the new period, whether it is the Pioneer novel, New Historical novel, or the New Realistic novel, most of the evolutionary traces of literature in the new period can be found in his literary creations, which makes his literary writing has the epoch-making significance of literary history, became a model for Chinese contemporary literature anatomy during this period. Through the efforts of Su Tong and critics, the drives of the film adaptation, and the promotions of mass media, Su Tong gained wide concerns by different groups, such as experts, scholars, critics, publishers, readers, readers and so on, the scope of his writings spread than most of the famous writer’s more wider. Because of different reader groups have different motivation to accept, different mode to receive, and the different psychological mechanism and so on, which makes the reception of Su Tong’s novels have a magic phenomenon among different reader groups that to accept in same view but have few difference, and in different point but have the same view.This paper is divided as the following sections:Introduction, the brief analysis of Su Tong novel research present situation and the necessity what study for people to accept from the perspective of the reader.The first chapter, the course of Su Tong’s novel accept investigation, mainly based on the different types of Su Tong’s novel creation, from the perspective of diachronic combing different novel types of Su tong reception: as a pioneer writer Su Tong and text is elucidated, new historical novel and the film and television great mass fervor, realistic return back and accept as diversity, and the characteristics of reception in each stage.The second chapter, analysis of Su Tong’s novels in a mass audience to accept, in the context of popular culture, Su Tong’s novels reception form rich variety, has experienced from paper to film and television in turn, to online media acceptable flow process. Novel issuing, publishing and selling have made considerable achievements. At the same time, Su Tong not only got the fame and wealth from mass cultural consumption, but also his characters gained different construction, it is deformation and finalizes the design, misreading and rewrite. The third chapter, analysis the situation of Su Tong’s novels in the elite readers reception, in the writing of literary history, different literature for novel naming and classification of Su Tong have different treatment, named such as "Pioneer novel","New Historical novel"," new Realism novel", and other special processing methods, which are related to the flow of the writer’s style, also reflects the different literary historians are in competition for voice to locate the literature writing. And all kinds of literary anthology, edited to accept and spread of the novel Su Tong have played an important role in promotion and construction. And the brief analysis for the difference what accepted by mass audience, elite readers in Su Tong’s novel reception specific activity.The fourth chapter, comprehensive analysis of the reasons for Su Tong’s novel accepted popularly, the main reason is the charm of the writing itself and the writer’s own efforts. The external reason that he was highly favored and affirmed by experts as elite culture and critics, and was supported by journals such as "Zhong Shan","Harvest", means of mass communication such as the Communication of film and television, publication planning of publishers and so on, also had a great effect on Su Tong’s writing accepting process. In a word, Su Tong’s success is the result of combined action of various forces.