Love in The “Post-Revolution” Period

Title：Love in The “Post-Revolution” Period: Culture，Literature and the Structure of Feeling in 1990s

(“后革命”时期的爱情：1990年代的文学、文化与感觉结构)

Author:

CHEN Quan (陈 泉)

PhD  2015 Dissertation     

Abstract：

This essay is going to discuss how the culture of literature in 1990s forms its own characteristics in the narration of love. After returning its historic scenes by studying this process, I grasp the culture in 1990s and the Structure of Feeling.In the first dimension of grasping the structure of feeling through the narration of love in 1990s, I analyze the historic narration of love in the revolution period, and therefore describe “an atmosphere of post-revolution” which results in the conscious and unconscious experiences in this period. One type of love is totally denied that attempted to be produced naturally in a more general prospect of realizing human beings’ idealism. Meanwhile, we gradually find that what accompanies it is the entire lost of idealism and love. In the second dimension, I take the subject of love as the subject of society. As the carrier of the structure of feeling, the subject of society fulfills itself in the process of sex relationship. Here, the only positive and constructive aspect is the love experience of new class who possess wealth. The main part of politics fits well into the core of the structure of feeling in 1990s. In the third dimension, I discuss the dominant position of Sex in the sex relationship and the social Discourse, bodily feelings and space experience that are formed because of Sex. In the narration of love in 1990s, Sex is constructed as “what is firmer and more solid”, becoming a result of nihilism after love is dispelled. This also comes from a social experience of 1990s to understand the meanings of “solid” and “firm”. Through these three dimensions, I reach a conclusion on a new group of narration rules that is formed in the narration of love in 1990s, and the rules have an isomorphic relation with the main stream of social culture and the structure of feeling.

Contents:

Chapter 1  Introduction

Chapter 2  The historic narration of love in the revolution period

Chapter 3  Love·Subject·Politics

Chapter 4  Sex and 1990s: Discourse·Body·Space

Chapter 5  Conclusion