Research On The Description Of Women's Clothing In Mao Dun's Novels

The description of clothing plays an important role in literary works.The unique costume description can often show the author's literary and artistic views and ideological characteristics.Mao Dun is a modern writer who likes decoration very much.His novels have brilliant clothing descriptions,especially the description of female clothing,which is colorful and unique.Starting from the characteristics of Mao Dun's description of female clothing in his novels,this paper analyses the causes of the characteristics of Mao Dun's description of clothing,and studies the contradictions behind the description of clothing in depth.Mao Dun,a modern male writer with both revolutionist and social activist temperament and coexistence of rationality and sensibility,will be found.This paper is divided into three parts: introduction,text and conclusion.The introduction defines the concept of "clothing" and illustrates the research significance of Mao Dun's description of female clothing in his novels at first.Then it summarizes the research materials about the description of female clothing in Mao Dun's novels.Finally,on this basis,illustrates the research train of thought and methods.The text is divided into three chapters.The first chapter combined with the novel text to study the characteristics of Mao dun's description of female clothing.As a writer with revolutionary and social activist temperament,on the one hand,Mao Dun highlighted the social changes of people's spiritual outlook and the changes of body and clothing in the Great Revolution era through the description of clothing.Female clothing is the identity of the evolution of the times and the epochal representation of social change,showing the characteristics of the discourse of the times that go hand in hand with the times.On the other hand,through the comparison of fashionable and new urban female clothing,the pursuit of clothing overflowing with desire and the clothing in conflict between urban and rural areas,the crazy consumption and hedonism in modern cities are highlighted,and the complicated features of urban erotic language are presented.At the same time,as a male writer,Mao Dun depicts the female body hidden under clothes through various senses and imaginations to show the female sexuality.Despite the gradual decline of this desirable writing,it can still reflect the characteristics of mundane male whispering to a certain extent.This kind of discourse of the times,urban gorgeous language and male whisper interweave each other,which constitutes a rich,wonderful and unique description of female clothing in Mao Dun's novels.The second chapter combines the background of the times and Mao Dun's own experience to analyze the reasons for the characteristics of female clothing description in Mao Dun's novels.Writers' creative characteristics are closely related to their times,environment,personal experience and art reserves.Mao Dun's description of female clothing in his novels is inseparable from his realistic struggling life,the influence of the times and the living environment of Wuzhen and Shanghai.At the same time,Mao Dun's early life in the "female world" has brought him a unique experience of both sexes,and also provided him with a rich and colorful "female image" and formed his delicate and unique aesthetic tendency.After 1930 s,when Mao Dun was middle-aged,his working environment changed and his public rationality expanded.These lead to the gradual decline of the Desire-oriented writing of female clothing from strong to weak.In addition,Mao Dun's extensive involvement in Chinese classical literature and his compatibility with western modern literature have made him a literary accumulation with a good knowledge of both China and the West and a broad knowledge of the past and the present.As a result,the description of clothing in his works also shows a broad rational and sensible artistic style.Generally speaking,the characteristics of the description of female clothing in Mao Dun's novels are personalized creation under the background of social era.It contains Mao Dun's close connection with the times and living environment,and is also branded with Mao Dun's own experience and cultural influence.The third chapter reveals the hidden “contradictions” of Mao Dun with the description of female clothing in Mao Dun's novels.The origin of Mao Dun's pen name means that the word "contradiction" has an inseparable connection with him.As a social activist,he has a grand and rational way of socialized thinking,but his delicate and perceptual life experience also exists in Mao Dun's novel creation,which makes him show the complex color of the interweaving of rationality and perception.The concept of realism makes him keen on urban narrative,but Mao Dun's spectacular writing reveals the identity of urban outsiders and alienation from urban culture.Finally,the male writer's identity makes him unable to surpass the limitation of gender and unconsciously reveal the male chauvinism consciousness,although he has shown his recognition and support to the female position with his open and advanced thought.These internal contradictions show us Mao Dun,a modern male writer with both revolutionary and social activist temperament and rational and perceptual coexistence.The concluding part briefly summarizes the full text,reiterates the research significance of the description of female clothing in Mao Dun's novels,and points out the shortcomings of this article and the areas that need to be further explored and expanded.