Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.3, 2023

The Stylistic Feature of Chorographic Novel in the New Era

(Abstract)

Yan Jiexiong

Since the new era, the growing popularity of chorographic novel has become a remarkable literary phenomenon. Its stylistic features are manifested in four aspects: first, it consciously or unconsciously connects its structure and style with that of local chronicles, and inherits the meaning of ancient classics; second, it endows the ancient local chronicles with the texture and tension of modern novels featuring space; third, by adopting thick description of anthropology, the chorographic writing expands the grand narrative approaches to a small-scale and dense description approach; the fourth is that the chorographic writing extends and enriches the narrative style from nonfiction chronicle to literary fiction.