A Study Of The Theme Of "Resist" Of Mishima Yukio's The Sea Of Fertility In The Horizon Of Modernity

This paper intends to explore the resistancing theme in Japanese writer Mishima Yukio's final masterpiece "The Sea of Richness" from the perspective of modernity,believing that the author used literary creation as a weapon in the late stage of his life to resist the nihility of modernity that was born as a spiritual consequence in the post-war cultural soil of Showa Japan.In view of this,this paper will consider the historical situation(post-war Japan)of the work,based on the perspective of modernity,and use the method of subject research and text perusal to analyze how Mishima expressed his "resistancing" in “The Sea of Fertility”.This paper is divided into four chapters.The first chapter is an introduction to the writer and his work,the status and methods of research.The second chapter to the fourth chapter take the “resistancing to nihility” in "The Sea of Fertility" as a clue,and cut in the three themes of "resistancing" of aesthetics,martyrdom and irony,then analyze and interpret their formation and content.Thereinto,the second chapter "Resistancing I: Aesthetic Pursuit" studies the composition and formation of Mishima Yukio's aesthetic weapon,and its embodiment in "The Sea of Fertility ";the third chapter "Resistancing II: The Way to Martyrdom" studies how the nihility of the "post-war" environment influenced Mishima and the "faith" he has established from this nihility,and how this "faith" displayed in “The Sea of Fertility”;Chapter 4 "Resistancing III: Irony Narrative" discusses how Mishima Yukio,who had used to be one of the "Japanese Romanticists",expressed the romantic irony in his works("The Sea of Fertility")and behavior(especially his commit suicide).The conclusion section summarizes the former four chapters.