From The World Of Appearances To An Artistic Symbol

Xiangxi in Shen Congwen's works is different from what it real be.The writer always combines the description of natural scenery with his own experience.For example,the beautiful natural scenery is like a painting in his visual experience,and the harmonious and graceful natural scenery is like a piece of music in his auditory experience.What's more,the writer decorates the mysterious and warm natural scenery with emotions.So the real Xiangxi turns into an artistic symbol loaded with the unique sensory experience and aesthetic emotional experience of the writer.The natural scenery in Shen Congwen's visual experience,auditory experience as well as sensory experience is the research object of this article.Taking the Semiology as the starting point,the article incorporates psychology,linguistics,narratology and so on to explore the aesthetic significance of the description of natural scenery in Shen Congwen's works.The introduction part,mainly introduces the significance of the topic,and the research status of the description of natural scenery in Shen Congwen's works.The first chapter introduces the relationship between the writer's visual experience and the picturesque description of natural scenery.Because of the similarities between the scenery and the Chinese ink painting,Shen Congwen makes the natural scenery in Xiangxi into a Chinese ink painting by the picturesque description.There are three features of this painting.First,the painting in simple colour actually hides wide artistic conception.Secondly,people in this painting get along well with the nature.What's more,the composition of the painting is flexible.The second chapter introduces the relationship between the writer's auditory experience and the musical description of natural scenery.Because of the idyllic and musical environment,Shen Congwen describes the natural scenery as a piece of music,and there are also three features of the music.First,the sound of the nature and the ballad created by people make up the music notes.Secondly,the dynamic language make up the music melody.At last,beauty mixed with sorrow is the style of the music.The third chapter introduces the relationship between the writer's emotional experience and the personalized aesthetic expression.His narrative language is full of vitality,and it reflects his esthetic cognition that the nature and people are in one.Moreover,the writer injects his aesthetic imagination into the description and it makes Xiangxi into a mysterious and dreamy world.In the end,Shen Congwen takes some natural scenery as the aesthetic images in his works,and on those warm natural scenery he places his love and miss to the hometown.