| Summary: | 碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 應用中國文學系碩士在職專班 === 95 === ABSTRACT
Weiyang Ge, a novel written in modern China, has been very popular with readers ever since it was published over forty years ago. With a subject that stands out over others－“beauty”, this work is characterized by a style of pure beauty that is interwoven by poetic background, graceful characters, unrestrained youth, tone overflowing with optimism. Indeed, Weiyang Ge underscores an overwhelming beauty. Readers who like this novel can readily revel in it without having to know academic theory and enjoy the eternal aesthetic experience. But the deeper one ventures into the aesthetic content and form of Weiyang Ge, the more one understands the good and valuable of it. Weiyang Ge becomes more distinct and touching when analyzed and measured by reason and academics. To get an understanding of the attainments and value of Weiyang Ge, it is both inevitable and necessary to undertake an aesthetic research.
Lu Qiao, the novel’s author, was himself a scholar on art history and was committed to the quest for beauty all his life. In Weiyang Ge, his first work and only long novel, Lu presents the concepts, content, form and skill of an aesthetic with a personal style. By bringing a unique aesthetic experience to the reader, the work raised aesthetic value to a certain extent and was worthy of academic study. In respect of his background, Lu attended old-style private school when he was young, so he built a solid foundation in Chinese classics. Moreover, he took on both the achievements of modern Chinese literature after the May 4 Movement and Western art theory from returnees from abroad. The track and qualities presented in Weiyang Ge is also worth discussion. This study, by focusing on aesthetics, attempts to explore four characteristics of aesthetics in classical novels as follows: reflection of human relationships and society, diffusion of fervent emotions, creation of art images, and demands of popular colloquialism. And then an analysis will be conducted with Western aesthetic experience theories like intuition of form, psychical distance, empathy function, and inside simulate theory, in an aim to understand the aesthetic content and achievements of Weiyang Ge.
As of yet there have been no aesthetic academic theses on Weiyang Ge. This study attempts to first summarize the author’s life and Weiyang Ge to lay the foundation. Then, an analysis will be conducted on the aesthetics of classical novels and Western aesthetic experience. In Conclusions, a discussion will be undertaken over the novel’s achievements and aesthetic value to adequately highlight its value. In addition a chronology of Lu Qiao’s works, a list of relevant reports on Lu Qiao and Weiyang Ge, along with a list of characters of Weiyang Ge, is provided at the end for reference.
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