Cultural Stances and Narrative Art of Contemporary Writers

Author: Wang Aisong
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: After the Cultural Revolution, Chinese literature ended its unified era and moved towards pluralistic development. The cultural stance and value orientation of writers rapidly diversified, and the narrative art of fiction underwent revolutionary changes. Based on the development of contemporary Chinese literature, this book primarily explores the complex interplay between the cultural stance and narrative art of Chinese writers after the Cultural Revolution. It examines how different cultural stances of writers determine their distinct aesthetic choices and narrative techniques, and to what extent and in what ways their narrative art influences the expression of their cultural stance. Through the study of various creative groups and representative writers of contemporary Chinese literature, the book outlines the overall trends and phased characteristics of Chinese literature after the Cultural Revolution, clarifies the general profile and individual differences in the cultural stance and narrative art of contemporary Chinese writers, and conducts timely and in-depth academic research and discussion on controversial contemporary literary phenomena and works.