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The Construction And Dispelling Of The Theme Of Urban Survival In New Realistic Novels

Posted on:2017-11-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2355330491956896Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In the 1980s and 1990s, the new realist novels depending on its real-life performance boarded the novel stage. From the definition and concept of its name to the evaluation of its subject matter, the literary world was attracted with wide attention and discussion. The new variety of realistic fiction showed why the trend is different from other novels feature, precisely because it is produced in a special period of social transformation in China. During this period, the rapid development of society also brought a lot of difficulties. These problems of urban life became more obvious and complex. This condition provided material for the writer's creation. In addition, it provided us with the necessary context of researching the new realist novels. Therefore, these fictions focused on the theme of urban living. The main activity and background of characters always took place in the city. Through showing its unique production, lifestyle, authors try to emphasize that the survival of the state to which all people enormous psychological pressure on the people and their spiritual strength destruction. The focus of this article is that the writer is to show how the environment and circumstances of human behavior to change the harsh living and social environment, shaping the character, as well as the destruction of inner conviction.For these purposes, this paper will start with the background of the new realistic novel produced, taking social changes, political, economic and cultural environment into account. We will also try to explore why the new realist novel writers focus on daily life of the city at the same time. Secondly, looking for the cause of all the difficulties of urban survival is another important task. We can combine this task with the new realistic novel narrative strategies and try to find the relationship between those two factors which implied author's subjective attitudes and feelings. Again, we can't ignore focusing on the survival of the new realistic novel urban theme of the deconstruction trait. So analyzing the paths of deconstruction forming is necessary. Foe example, under the pressure of life, someone may give up the original faith and hope. Others fight and resist again and again. But resisters were too small to change anything which resulting in the body had to give up the original insistence on self-worth. The latter one is a new plot of these novels and often involves intellectual themes. It is called "hopeful-disappointed" plot mode. As to specific figures, it is called "rising-falling" mode of life, in which the inherent- value "Breakthrough-nothingness" paradox, and the lost of the humanistic spirit. They are what the fourth chapter focuses on.
Keywords/Search Tags:the new realistic novel, survival anxiety, deconstruction, urban living narrative, space focus, meaning of life
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