Abstract
Lu Xun's Old Tales Retold can be regarded as an absolutely unique voice in the history of China's "New Literature." It demonstrates an originality as non-fictionality of the stories, with imagistic modernist discourse interacting with with the ancient discourse. This resulted in a multi-voiced image-full textual world which contributes to the alienation of literary discourse, the estrangement of aesthetic experience, and the rhetoric effect of parody and irony. It hence broke the boundaries of reality and fiction, undermined the authenticity of historical writing, removed the barriers between fiction and non-fiction as well as those between literature and non-literature, and deconstructed the inherent requirements of fiction. It is Lu Xun's free spirit of game that impregnated such a masterpiece sui generis.
First Page
130
Last Page
138
Recommended Citation
Li, Jianhuai, and Guangya Zhao. 2020. "Non-fictionality of Lu Xun's Old Tales Retold: On the Stylistic Effect of Literary Game on Lu Xun's Historical Writing." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 40, (2): pp.130-138. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol40/iss2/11
