| New century time travel novel, as an important part of Chinese network literature, became a branch of the development of network literature "giants", triggered a "time travel" boom. New century time travel novel, also known as network time travel novel, its readers and writers are mostly young people, to modern youth cross over and through a series of events for the description of the content, integration of the elements of sentimental novel, historical novel, martial arts novel, fantasy novel, science fiction and other types of fiction, which have spawned a variety of seed types, has become a kind of literary theme with a wide range of accommodation. At the beginning of the new century, time travel novel began to enter people’s vision, gradually being known. From 2006, time travel novel began to maintain a strong momentum of development, in the book publishing and film adaptation, time travel novel created a huge economic value. Until 2009, this share "time travel" upsurge began to retreat. Up to now, though the reading upsurge has cooled down, the creation of the time travel novel is still in the continuous development. Since the beginning of the new century, as one of the most attractive novel types in network literature, time travel novel has attracted the attention of critics, research paper of time travel novel, from 2006 began a trend of increasing year by year, so far, fruitful results have been achieved. Rich imagination of the time travel novel is the place that attracts the readers, but critics through the evaluation of the imagination of the time travel novel has been to two diametrically opposed views, and has not had any specialized research papers. The use of time and space, history and gender is the most prominent feature of the time travel novel, and it is also the most literary imagination of the place. From the three dimensions of space and time, history, gender, cut through the novel’s research, in the research methods, take the method of close reading and empirical research, to make an objective and impartial evaluation of the time travel novel.This article is divided into four chapters. In the first chapter, study space and time imagination. First of all, the paper of new century time travel novel narrative time and space narrative method to segment, then analysis time travel novels original of narrative techniques of time and space and the creation of literary narrative effect and strives to detailed interpretation of cross temporal and spatial narrative mode of novels. In the second chapter, from the historical imagination, this paper first focuses on the realistic factors and deep cultural psychology of the new century time travel novel’s "YY" history, secondly, explore the outstanding characteristics of the historical narrative through the novel. In the third chapter, starting from the gender narrative, first described early time travel novel of traditional gender narrative mode, then introduced time travel novel in the process of development of has prominent sex color themes and types, expand the gender narrative discourse, then analysis the use of novel’s "gender" elements completely, and explain the underlying social and cultural factors. In the fourth chapter, make a summary of the new century time travel novel, and make a comprehensive analysis of the value and limitations of the time travel novel.In short, in this paper, through the study of the time travel novel’s imagination, explore the characteristics of the narrative method of the time travel novel. In time and space, the new century time travel novel is different from other literature in the narrative way of space and time, which expands the imagination space of literature. In the historical imagination, the new century time travel novel has the prominent "YY" historical tendency, personal history narrative and the desire of the historical narrative of the prominent features, showing the similarities and differences between the previous historical novels. In the gender imagination, the new century time travel novel shows diversification of gender narrative features. The new century time travel novel has a great contribution to the literary and cultural significance, but it also has great limitations. |
