Research On The Shaping And Significance Of Female Image In Li Peifu's Novels

Li Peifu is one of the most famous contemporary writers in Henan province wh o is renowned for portraying central plains.In the recent forty years,he has devoted his life to portraying central plains people's real life and depicting the inner though ts as well as feelings of the characters.His exploration of central plains' cultural de posits,the deep concern about those who have experienced the huge change when th ey move from the villages to the big cities,and the creation style make him become the one of the most important provincial writers.This paper regards the female imag es in Li Peifu's novels as the main thesis and carries on the analysis to fully display the shaping of female images and approach its significance.In addition to the introduction and conclusion,the full text is divided into the f ollowing three chapters:Chapterl:According to the character and circumstances of women,the female i mages in Li Peifu's novels are divided into infatuated beauty,the women running a way from country,suffering mother,city hellcat.Through the analysis of typical cha racters in specific works,the characteristics of each kind of images are summarize.Infatuated beauties live for love.Suffering mothers face the hardships of life,bearing load.The women running away from country rebel against the traditional way of life showing the sex consciousness.The city hellcats show fierce and malicious in the relationships with male and the interpersonal interaction is flimsiness and philistine.Chapter2:The techniques of female images in Li Peifu's novels are mainly refl ected in three aspects:plot pattern,narrative angle and narrative image.The story m ode mainly includes "a woman who is infatuated with a faithless man" narrative mo de and the" run away from home" narrative mode.The love narrative mode inherited the narrative pattern of a woman who is infatuated with a faithless man in classical literature.While the 'running away' narrative mode set up the common plot of"escaping from the countryside,encounter in the city,and live away from home in cities or fly back to the villages".Narrative perspective is divided into third person and first person and narrative image focuses on the analysis of the group of Plant im ages which is the most used and has the most abundant connotation in the process of shaping the images of women.The use of different narrative perspective provides a different way and effect for the female image in Li Peifu's works.Chapter3:The female images in Li Peifu's novels were explained from the pers pective of the social,cultural and aesthetic.Social significance is mainly reflected on the exploration on the road of women's liberation in transformation phase and on the consideration of the survival condition of women who live in the bottom.The cultural significance is mainly reflected on the build of sexual subject and the inheritance of excellent traditional culture.The aesthetic meaning is mainly embodied in two aspects:the region and the tragic beauty.They all show the contemporary women's survival status and the liberation of social discussion,the reveal of the deep cultural psychology and values of the society,and enrich the significance of the aesthetic meaning of characters in literary creation.