Title: Homesickness in Modern Chinese Romantic Novels
Abstract: Homesickness in modern Chinese romantic novels focuses on the ideal realm which never exists or has already disappeared, traces back and displays the beauty of human nature in a lyric style, and conveys the writers' resistance and resentment against the current social reality by creating another imaginary beautiful world. This paper quotes Yu Dafu, Fei Ming, Shen Congwen, and Xiao Hong as examples in the analysis, claiming that homesickness expressed by Yu Dafu manifests his shift from a Confucian scholar to a celebrity in the academic circle, that the ideal homeland for Fei Ming is basically similar to, yet somewhat different from that for Shen Congwen, and that Xiao Hong began her long journey to her ideal homeland in the form of recalling her childhood. All these differences have reflected the different cultural identities and spiritual journeys of these romantic writers.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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