| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 中國文學系 === 106 === The revolutionary enlightenment, living of native land and history exploration in Li Rui’s novels
Author: Yang Szu-Yung
Advisor: Su Min-Yi
Master of Modern Literature, Department of Chinese Literature
College of Liberal Arts
SUMMARY
The content of this thesis is a research of the novels from Li Rui: an important writer in Contemporary Mainland China. Every novel written by himself can be found nowadays is included in the scope of my reading and analysis. The important works which can emphasize the main features of his creation after the culture revolution are chosen in this thesis. The purpose of this thesis is to generally research the achievement of Li Rui’s novels, and every important text can be explored exhaustively by this research. The methods used in this thesis are intensive reading, thematic analysis and academic reference. The main result presented as three topics: the experience of growing and revolutionary enlightenment, the living and culture from native land, and the reflection of history: from culture revolution to modern China’s turmoil, finally to symbolize the dilemma of human being. History and lives are the most crucial themes of Li Rui’s novels, and the individual life annihilated by history necessity is Li Rui’s ultimate concern. This is the brief conclusion of my thesis.
Key words: Li Rui, enlighten, native land, culture revolution, history, dilemma.
INTRODUCTION
There is a large number of theses researching on Li Rui’s writings, but most of them are works theory or themes theory, which focus on some specific novels or themes, are in lack of integrity. This thesis takes a strategy to combine themes theory and works theory, providing more perspectives to realize the achievement of Li Rui’s novels. I try to make those three themes to cover the whole writing course which includes every important work. The crucial viewpoints from journal papers and theses which can enrich my thesis are cited appropriately. The three themes as above can summarize Li Rui’s patterns of writing and results of thinking. Most importantly: presenting the author as an extraordinary litterateur with profound reflection and humanism concern.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The materials used in this thesis are Li Rui’s important novels which can conform the main themes of the revolutionary enlightenment, native land living and history chasing. Including five full-length novels, six medium-length novels and dozens of short stories. Prose, dialogues are set to provide assistance for the analysis of the novel texts. It can guide all the readers to understand Li Rui’s ideas in creation more directly and generously. As above, the methods used here are intensive reading, thematic ＆ works analysis, reference from academic literature and Li Rui’s works beyond novels.
CONCLUSION
History and Life are two issues that Li Rui keeps concerning most in his writing process. He has presented the painful road that Chinese nation walk through from classical age to modern era. This process which is more than a century has been full of pain, fear, hatred, chaos and death, resulting in countless innocent and respectable individual life vanished in the name of historical necessity. Modern age is a revolutionary era, lives may disappear easily at any moment. Li Rui deeply hates this kind of irrationality and cruelty from history, so he determined to reveal the value of lives which submerged by the waves of history. He can promote the spirit of humanism and question the ideal that cost lives like nothing by his lifetime writing. As he said, he tries to salvage lives from the lies of history.
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