On the Perspective and Implication of Landscape Writing in The Story of Hulan River
As the pinnacle of Xiao Hong's novel creation,The Story of Hulan River is characterized by its rich depiction of scenery.There are two situations in which landscape writing is positioned in the narrative of the novel:sometimes as the background for the narrative,which constitutes a contrast or comparison with the characters and events and enriches the reader's reading experience;and sometimes as the center of the narrative,with the land-scape playing the role of the protagonist.The perspective of landscape perception in The Story of Hulan River is vari-able,but the most important aspect is the adult omniscient narrative.This omniscient narrator is not external to the narrative,but rather the implicit"me"in the work,who has always been regarded as a narrator of"children nar-rative",for as a girl,"I"is more often just the object of gaze and care from the adult"me".There are many ways to describe the landscape in The Story of Hulan River,including the realistic restoration of the hometown space,the projective depiction of the writer's subjective consciousness and emotions,and the symbolic or metaphorical writ-ing of the landscape.As a landscape of modernity,the childhood landscape in The Story of Hulan River has differ-ent aspects,including the free and aesthetic landscape,as well as the desolate and dilapidated"anti-landscape".The landscape writing also reflects the writer's complex emotional attitude,including her nostalgia for the child-hood life,her attachment to the hometown scenery,her pain for the decadent and desolate landscape in the memory,as well as her criticism of the national weakness of the people in small towns.
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