The Resurrection of the Body Dimension in the Writing of Intellectuals at the Beginning of the New Period——Centred on At Middle Age
At the beginning of the New Period,a number of novels about intellectuals emerged,and CHEN Rong's At Middle Age is undoubtedly an important representative of them.Exploring the text from the three aspects of the external appearance of the body,the internal desire and its relationship with the spirit,we can find that the long-obscured intellectual body resurfaces in history.Among them,the external appearance of the intellectual body was reshaped,and the author quietly replaced the"shirts and shoes"and other clothes with"intelligent eyes".The"intellectual beauty"represented by them also surpassed the"bodybuilding"greatly admired from the 1950s to 1970s in aesthetic status.Moreover,the desires that originated within the body have also gained legitimacy to a certain extent.However,the modern appeal of modernity makes the body still in a dominant position in its relationship with the spirit.Thus,the paradox of intellectual subjectivity and the writing face of the novel in the early New Period can be manifested.
CHEN RongAt Middle AgeNew Period literatureintellectualsbody writing
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