"Quasi-epics","Quasi-growth" and "Quasi-tales"——The Three Modes of Historical Narration of Chinese Contemporary Revolution and Its Narrative Aesthetics

Contemporary revolutionary historical can classify into three distinctive but interrelated intersecting types,that is,quasi-epics,quasi-growth and quasi-tales.Quasi-epic narration was relatively closely associated with mainstream politics,having multiple internal connections with Western tradition of epic writing and Chinese poetics of ancient fiction.Quasi-tale narration was adjacent to market and popular literature,most closely related to Chinese tradition of classical fiction.And qausi-growth narration was largely derived from Western conception of fiction,which was the sole legitimate form of intellectual in the 17 years.The three above-mentioned forms of contributed respectively a group of literary works of common or similar narrative structure and aesthetic value.