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Pursue The Height Of Cultural Spiri

Posted on:2023-07-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Q ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2555306824484754Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Wang Xufeng has a broad historical vision and a strong sense of cultural concern.Her works,well known in the literary world,have once won the MAO Dun Literature Award.At the beginning of her creating,Wang Xufeng either draws from the life of young urban people whose traditional values are gradually losing their way,or intentionally uses the life experience in her hometown Fuyang.Under the influence of literary thoughts such as "scars’ ’ and "seeking roots’ ’,she created a series of works known as "Spring Series’ ’,"Cafe Series’ ’ and "Riddle River Series’ ’.After working in the Tea Museum,Wang Xufeng’s writings became more distinct.The "Tea Man Series"takes the rise and fall of the literary merchant family in a century as the storyline,and annotates the traditional culture in modern context.At the same time,she continues to break through herself and makes a pursuit of rich and varied style.Her "Ten Views of the West Lake" and other works depict people’s secular life,showing her experimental spirit.In the context of consumer culture,many writers pander to the market taste.Committed to her humanistic ideal,Wang Xufeng spares no effort to pursue cultural spirits in her novel writing and create new characters reflecting the characteristics of the age.Her novels combine the magnificent and lifelike historical features with the profound and critical cultural narration,blend the traditional artistic experience with the modern,and therefore present the beauty of classical "harmony".The analysis of her novel creation can enlightens the contemporary literary circle influenced by the market,continuously add historical and cultural intensity and sublimate people’ spirit and thoughts.Using textual close reading,social and historical criticism,semiotics,feminism,narration and other methods and theories,this thesis aims to explore the growth process of Wang Xufeng’s characters,and study the thematic implication and cultural representation of the text.What’s more,this thesis summarizes her strategic way of shaping cultural spirit and ideal personality,illustrates her writing style of combining tradition and modernity,explores the writer’s reflection on the modernization of traditional culture,and tries to present a comprehensive view of Wang Xufeng’s novels.This thesis is divided into three parts: introduction,body and conclusion.The first part is the introduction,which mainly talks about the reason why this thesis title is chosen and the significance of the research,summarizes the research status of Wang Xufeng’s novels,and clarifies the research ideas,perspectives,methods and innovations of this paper.The body part contains five chapters.The first chapter explores the source of Wang Xufeng’s cultural spirit,observing the writer’s growth and creation process.Since Wang Xufeng’s literature is adjusted with the change of her individual identity,by penetrating into her life experience,we can examine her cultural mentality and construction of cultural psychology in different periods.Chapter two is written to explore the thematic implication and cultural representation in Wang Xufeng’s works by connecting her different novels.Against the background of chaotic cultural interaction between modern civilization and traditional one,Wang Xufeng makes good use of regions south of the Yangtze River,takes tea culture as her showcase,and persistently explores the possibility of modern transformation of the culture of refined scholars.She makes great efforts to expand the signified symbolic implication of Tea and Hangzhou and create a profound symbolic world.By showing the psychological conflict and rebalancing of refined scholars in the trend of market economy,Wang Xufeng shows her reflection on traditional culture and realized the continuation of the culture of refined scholars of great cultural significance.Chapter three analyses the characters in representative works of Wang Xufeng,in a psychological and behavioral way and skilfully connects their characters’ external features and internal characteristics in order to interpret them more deeply.The ideal person,from the perspective of the writer,is a combination of traditional virtues and modern qualities.However,there are some differences between men and women.This chapter focuses on the spirit of tea men,the virtue and beauty in their personality,and the female characteristics of self-reliance.The fourth chapter discusses Wang Xufeng’s narrative strategy and aesthetic pursuit.Based on her pursuit of the realistic tradition,she expresses her concern over modern society in traditional way.The adoption and combination of creative skills reveals her writing style with ethnic characteristics.Meanwhile,she takes an active action to absorb the artistic supplies of modernist literature and use modernist expression techniques for reference.Chapter Five evaluates the significance and limitation of Wang Xufeng’s novel creation.With a strong sense of intellectual responsibility,Wang Xufeng adheres to humanistic concerns in modern circumstances,adds strength to historical and cultural narratives,transforms local narrative resources,and provides forward-looking guidance for the construction of ideal culture and a beautiful personality.However,there are some shortcomings in the implantation of cultural knowledge and the criticism of reality.The third part is the conclusion,which summarizes the whole research content,affirms the writer’s literary spirit,and summarizes the status and value of Wang Xufeng’s novels.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wang Xufeng’s novels, cultural concern, historical narrative, classical form
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