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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (3): 210-216.

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Reconstructing the Poetic Appeal of Contemporary Chinese Prose: A Case Study on Zhao Lihong's Prose

Wu Zhouwen   

  1. the School of Liberal Arts, Yangzhou University (Yangzhou 225000, China)
  • Online:2014-06-25 Published:2014-07-06
  • About author:Wu Zhouwen is a professor in the School of Liberal Arts, Yangzhou University (Yangzhou 225000, China), focusing on the study of modern and contemporary Chinese literature.

Abstract: The paper explores the poetic appeals in Zhao Lihong's 30-year prose writing from the following three perspectives: the positioning of the authenticity of the author's subjecthood, the choice of the approaches to poeticization, and the creation of the narrative form. The existence of these appeals proves that they reveal a problem unresolved for decades in contemporary Chinese prose. Critically inheriting the poetic tradition in May 4th Period and the First 17-Year-Period of Communist China, Zhao Lihong’s prose constructs a poetic discourse of prose aesthetics, which points to a way for the contemporary and the future prose in China.

Key words: poeticalness, Zhao Lihong, prose aesthetics, appeal, re-construction