英文摘要 |
A city does not simply represent a geographical locus; it deeply associates power, signifier as well as writing subjectivity. In this paper, I aim to examine the ancient city of Luoyang to investigate the multiple facets of city writing through diverse writers, periods of time, and points of view. I would suggest that through discoursing the spatial imagery of Luoyang city, the writing narratology itself reveals a profound symbolism. The paper mainly compares and contrasts the different narratology in discoursing Luoyang city in The Notes to Luoyang Buddhist Temple and The Broadway to the East Capital. I found that while both adopting the literary technique of nostalgia to write about Luoyang city, Yang Xuanzhi, a poet of the Northern Dynasties, and the anonymous poet of the Southern Dynasties deploy completely different narratology respectively in in The Notes to Luoyang Buddhist Temple and The Broadway to the East Capital. Luoyang city is represented by Yang Xuanzhi as a locus of struggle in terms of political authenticity and power. Also, the image of a ruined city is highlighted in order to call attention to the emotion of pity after the relocation of the capital. Yet, the anonymous poet of the Southern Dynasties focuses on the beauty of this ancient, cultivated city so as to recollect and reconstruct the memories of this magnificent city and its good old days. This paper concludes that through these two writers of different dynasties as they reminisce the city by diverse narrative points of view, Luoyang city represents multiple spatial imageries as well as symbolic resonances. |