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Tearful Characters, Genuine Characters ——On Yu Dafu's Earlier Novel Writing

Xiao Yu-lin

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Yu Dafu, whose earlier novel writing was characterized by its unique and peculiar style, was an influential literary figure in modern and contemporary literary history of China. Affected by his metamorphic artistic personality, earlier novels of Yu Dafu displayed a style of sadness and pathos. And this kind of sadness and pathos is collectively embodied in character of the As mouthpiece of self of writer himself, the unwanted revealed his tragic fate of being through expressions of his feeling depressed and unwanted. Meanwhile, as model of the catabolized and the anti-catabolizing of the first generation of modern Chinese intellectuals, character of the unwanted is of great significance to our efforts to fight against catabolization, to promote all-round development of human and to realize liberation of human and humankind.

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Yu Dafu, whose earlier novel writing was characterized by its unique and peculiar style, was an influential literary figure in modern and contemporary literary history of China. Affected by his metamorphic artistic personality, earlier novels of Yu Dafu displayed a style of sadness and pathos. And this kind of sadness and pathos is collectively embodied in character of the As mouthpiece of self of writer himself, the unwanted revealed his tragic fate of being through expressions of his feeling depressed and unwanted. Meanwhile, as model of the catabolized and the anti-catabolizing of the first generation of modern Chinese intellectuals, character of the unwanted is of great significance to our efforts to fight against catabolization, to promote all-round development of human and to realize liberation of human and humankind.

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Yu Dafu, whose earlier novel writing was characterized by its unique and peculiar style, was an influential literary figure in modern and contemporary literary history of China. Affected by his metamorphic artistic personality, earlier novels of Yu Dafu displayed a style of sadness and pathos. And this kind of sadness and pathos is collectively embodied in character of the As mouthpiece of self of writer himself, the unwanted revealed his tragic fate of being through expressions of his feeling depressed and unwanted. Meanwhile, as model of the catabolized and the anti-catabolizing of the first generation of modern Chinese intellectuals, character of the unwanted is of great significance to our efforts to fight against catabolization, to promote all-round development of human and to realize liberation of human and humankind.

Key concepts: Pathos, Sadness, Character (mathematics), Embodied cognition, Feeling, Literature, Style (visual arts), Philosophy

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