A Metaphorical Exploration of Landscape Writing in Literature: Transformations and Claims from Natural Scenery to Mindscapes

Abstract

He is an important writer in modern Chinese literature, and a special writer who showed a different path of creation when revolutionary literature dominated the world in the 1930s, and his research has been increasing in the academic circles since the 1980s. In this paper, we take the writer's representative regional world, namely the world of Xiangxi, as the center, and introduce the principle of "landscape" of Japanese scholar Kojin karatani to explore the inevitability of his creation against the trend from the three aspects of discovery, construction, and the demands behind the landscape. By analyzing this kind of landscape writing as a metaphor, this paper aims to reveal the literary pursuits and national sentiments behind it, to provoke readers to think about the possibility of an alternative path of rural development in the 1930s, and to enrich the imagination of modern Chinese literature about the landscape of writing in the 1930s. This study not only helps us to recognize the unique value and contribution of those non-mainstream literary works more comprehensively, but also provides an important perspective for refining how modern Chinese literature has integrated into the world literary landscape and contributed to the unique "Chinese experience".