Research On Disease Narration In Novels Of The New Century

Disease is one of the most common themes in literature.Many works in the long history of modern and contemporary Chinese literature diffuse the shadow of disease narration.The author uses the image of disease to explain his observation and reflection on the social bad situation.When the novel coronavirus hit in 2020,the disease narrative returned to people’s vision,and the rich connotation of the disease narrative shone brightly.As a writer with medical background and psychological background,Bi Shumin viewed people and society in the disease situation with keen insight and compassion.She paid attention to people’s life consciousness and mental health,and her works were full of pity and comfort for the sick,The praise for the glory of human nature,which is full of the meaning of healing and treatment in the language of spring and rain,is a typical representative of the meaning of treatment in the disease narrative in the new century.This paper focuses on Bi Shumin’s works to explore the objects,methods and results of medical treatment in the disease narrative in the novel of the new century.The thesis is divided into introduction and five main parts.The introduction part defines the research object and related concepts,mainly the theoretical source of disease narrative and literary therapy and the embodiment in modern and contemporary literary tradition;Sort out the research status of disease narrative at home and abroad and clarify the research methods;Explain the significance and expected value of the paper.The first part combs the disease narrative tradition of modern and contemporary Chinese literature,and finds that it has a path from individual to society,revealing the path from disease to cure,from which to see the inheritance and evolution of disease narrative after the new century;At the same time,the disease narrative of the novel since the new century is classified and sorted out to roughly grasp the overall situation of the research object of the paper.The second part classifies and studies the morbid characters in the disease narrative of the new century novels,mainly according to their morbid psychology,and analyzes the causes and conditions of formation.Taking Bi Shumin’s novel creation as an example,there are mental symptoms in the individual in the novel,including the soul of the sick.The reason why patients are abandoned by the "health kingdom" is that they neglect their natural life attributes and lack the sense of suffering,and become "amnesia";On the other hand,the patient’s inferiority complex in the judgment of others in the novel leads to a sense of shame,resulting in psychological closure and mental trauma,and "aphasia" in the social context.The citizens of the health kingdom are also in the story of the disease narrative structure.The novel shows the attitudes and reactions of different groups to the patients and diseases,and reveals the spiritual emptiness of the seemingly healthy people.The third part is to classify and discuss the metaphor of social and cultural psychological diseases in disease narrative novels.Disease,as a medical term,is a metaphorical gesture when it enters the literary field.The metaphorical meaning of diseases such as plague,tuberculosis and syphilis has appeared many times in modern Chinese literature.Since the new century,the social and cultural metaphorical color of disease narrative in novels has gradually faded,and the stigma of disease has been weakened.This chapter takes Bi Shumin’s "Blood Delicate","Corolla Virus","Flower Surgery","Save Breast",and Liu Yuquan’s "Blood Baby Millet" as the specific analysis objects,and other novels will be used as text supplements throughout the whole thesis structure.The fourth part is the healing consciousness contained in the disease narration of the novel in the new century.First of all,the decontamination of disease metaphors makes patients come out of the shadow of social prejudice.The authors often use artistic exaggeration and romanticism to construct a new artistic world,focus on the sick body,and use a lot of ink to describe the symptoms after the disease and the suffering of the patients,so as to arouse the attention of the society to the patients themselves and the psychological changes of the sick bodyThe common feature of the novel is to strive for the dignity of life and actively resist alienation.The novel thus realizes the decontamination of the metaphor of disease from the physical representation to the spiritual level.Secondly,the disease narrative in the novel of the new century pays attention to the state of the sick body in the social context from the perspective of space,and takes the psychological space inside and outside the ward and the sick body itself as the boundary,revealing the separation between individuals and the sense of loneliness,which is not only the spiritual treatment of the sick but also the care for the spiritual problems existing in the whole social situation;While describing the illness and suffering,the author has condensed the idealistic human aura on some characters,especially women,to set a model for the reversal and confusion of values and give people the power to improve themselves.Finally,the author turns to the refinement and expression of the brilliance of human nature to give comfort and courage to people in the dark with warmth and hope.On the one hand,the mental strength of patients in the process of self-rescue.They fight the pain with their broken and weak body,which explains the courage,dignity and tenacity of human beings,and enables readers to draw strength from it;On the other hand,the works portray a number of female images who are soft outside and hard inside.Their maternal tenderness and love,and women’s gentle tolerance are transformed into spears against disease.They are resolute,brave and full of tenacity.The fifth part summarizes the value significance and reflection of disease narration in the new century novels.First of all,it inherits the tradition of modern literature’s concern and treatment of social and national psychology,so that literature can play its role of humanistic care in the changes of contemporary social culture and human psychology.While writing a large number of disease dilemmas,novels often or deeply explore the flash of human nature,or use fictional techniques to give people warmth and hope and vision for the future;Bring the topic of life dignity back to people’s vision,and discuss the value of maintaining life dignity from the perspective of patients.The second is to arouse the philosophy of survival.Through the analysis of the contradictory relationship between modern medical treatment,science and technology and human tradition,it triggers the reflection on the value and meaning of personal life,faces the life and death test in the disease situation,lets people question and improve the existing lifestyle,and establishes healthy values.Finally,the novel often does not give a fatal end to the tragic illness,and sets up a nearly complete An open ending,which seems to lack of tragedy and block reflection,still has room for further exploration of the healing function of disease narrative.