Intertextual Writing of the Image of"Father":a Comparative Interpretation of Wang Meng's Autobiography and Activity Transforms into Human Form
The image of"father"in Wang Meng Autobiography and Activity Transforms into Human Form constitutes an obvious intertextual phenomenon.As two creative paths,autobiography and novels provide each other with reference historical materials from outside the text to inside the text.Wang Meng Autobiography provides a political and psychological explanation for the fictional portrayal of Ni Wucheng,the"father"character in Activity Transforms into a Human Form.Taking Wang Jindi,the father in Wang Meng Autobiography as the prototype in generating Ni Wucheng's image,we can see the emotional aesthetics that emphasizes emotional imagination,the logical starting point that emphasizes political significance,and the psychological clues of sincerity and bravery in the author's artistic expression.Influenced by the characters in the novel,Wang Jindi and Ni Wucheng are almost identical,deviating from the comprehensiveness,objectivity,and thoughtfulness of biographical characters in terms of historical facts,historical commentary,and historical contemplation.Therefore,paying attention to the network of historical materials weaved by biographies and other literary genres can make up for the structural defects caused by the bias of literary history towards fiction,and endow literary research with a historical dimension and a sense of thought.
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