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On SHEN Congwen's Solitude and Loneliness from Sketches of Travels in Hunan

Sketches of Travels in Hunan is the most outstanding prose work by SHEN Congwen, which is constituted of narrative,personage describing, news, scenic sketch, object describing, and emotion expressing. It describes various knowledge gained along the upstream of Yuan River from Changde, combining scenery with human affairs and painting a colorful picture of people's life in west Hunan Province. Many of SHENG Congwen's works, including Sketches of Travels in Hunnan, have represented the happy life of west Hunan and faintly showed his loneliness.   

  1. College of Literature, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
  • Received:2012-03-05 Revised:2012-03-14 Online:2012-05-15 Published:2012-05-15

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Abstract:

Sketches of Travels in Hunan is the most outstanding prose work by SHEN Congwen, which is constituted of narrative,personage describing, news, scenic sketch, object describing, and emotion expressing. It describes various knowledge gained along the upstream of Yuan River from Changde, combining scenery with human affairs and painting a colorful picture of people's life in west Hunan Province. Many of SHENG Congwen's works, including Sketches of Travels in Hunnan, have represented the happy life of west Hunan and faintly showed his loneliness.

Key words: Sketches of Travels in Hunan, loneliness, solitude

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