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The Research Of Zhao Defa’s Novels

Posted on:2017-05-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330485982185Subject:Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Zhao Defa is famous in the literary world for his work Farmers Trilogy and Religious Companion Volume. He not only makes big achievement in literary but also has a large number of readers. However, for a long time researches about Zhao’s work are relatively rare and lack of systematicness. In this study, the author puts all of Zhao’s novels and fictions into research from a systemic vision, which can makes up the deficiency of the past researches.This paper includes three parts, introduction, main body and conclusion.In the part of introduction, the author makes a literature review of researches about Zhao’s work, and introduces the innovation of this paper.The main body of this paper includes three chapters.Chapter one is the change of Chinese farmers in the past 100 years. Zhao describes the complex relationships between farmers and land, farmers and morality, farmers and politics by three novels and a series of vovellas. Through his work, the change of Chinese farmers in the past 100 years is clearly revealed. His work is a complex emotion knot of land and traditional ethic, and criticizes the Chinese people’s chasing of official career and the rural politics.Chapter two is a panoramic view of religion in Zhao’s work. Zhao is an ambitious writer who puts religion world into his work. He writes Praying Hands and Taoist and his other novels also shows the influence of religion culture to contemporary development. He not only puts Buddhism and Taoism but also Christianism and heresy into his research. The author thinks that Zhao is actually looking for the roots of literary from the perspective of religion writing and advertizing the universal theory from religious theory.In short, Zhao reveals the religious landscape especially the Buddhism landscape to readers comprehensively through his work, which has a very important meaning in literary history.Chapter three is the endless tragedy world. All of Zhao’s novels are filled with tragedy. He creates series of tragedy including love tragedy and era tragedy and shapes tragic figures, which relates to Zhao’s tragic childhood, his idealistic temperament and his past years, and his sense of urgency and critical Consciousness is also an important reason why his work is full of tragedy.In the conclusion part, the author makes a conclusion of the whole paper. After deeply analyzing the theme features, regional features and historical value of Zhao’s work, the author discusses the problems in Zhao’s novel writing.
Keywords/Search Tags:Zhao defa, universal value, tragedy
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