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| An Interpretation of Chinese Narrative Art in Western Critical Discourse#br#
— On Pearl S. Bucks View of Chinese Traditional Novels Realistic Aesthetics |
| Liu Shupeng |
| Department of Public Elementary Courses, Nanjing Vocational University of Industry Technology, Nanjing 210046, China |
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Abstract As a writer and scholar with dual cultural identities, Pearl S. Buck surveyed Chinese traditional fictions from a crosscultural perspective. Her comments on the realistic characteristics of Chinese traditional fictions from the perspective of artistic philosophy often borrowed the categories and logic of western literary criticism. According to the theory of imitation, reproduction and “mirror theory”, Buck compared Chinese traditional fictions to a mirror of ancient Chinese social life, history and culture, revealed their historical height and unique value in reflecting social life that the classics written by the sages and men of virtue cannot hope to reach, and interpreted their realistic characteristics and connotation from the dimension of relation between realty reflection and artistic treatment. She thought that Chinese traditional fictions embodied the unity of faithful depiction and artistic fabrication, and were tinged with some naturalistic characteristics such as calmness, objectivity and factual recording, and observation and document about human natures expression in the specific context, and that they were not confined to “being like life”, but to create a sense of “being life”, which is consistent with the principles of “experimental fictions” of naturalism.
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