Abstract
Zhu Dongrun's theory of biographical literature is constructed from the existent practices and theories of both ancient China and the West. The central concepts of Zhu's theory include the renaming of the prevailing biographical literature into biographical narrative literature, the emphasis of the dual attributes of historical and literary of biographical literature while defining the connotation of biographical narrative. The claim of "the turn from events to people" has freed the biographical literature from its dependency on history, but the overemphasis of historical reliability may result in the negligence of literariness. The claim to characterize and reveal from life from the private sphere is subject to the influence from grand narrative. The paper thus demonstrates the characteristic complexity in Zhu's theory of biographical literature.
First Page
123
Last Page
128
Recommended Citation
Gu, Yeping. 2012. "On Zhu Dongrun's Theory of Biographical Literature and its Characteristic Complexity." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 32, (2): pp.123-128. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol32/iss2/12
