Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.2, 2020

The Dialogue in the History of Literature: Exploring the Theme of Modern Women’s Growth by “Intertextuality”

(Abstract)

Guo Li

Looking back to the creation of female characters in the literary history of the past century, the growth of female subjects is always an important proposition of the times, and is closely related to the Enlightenment brought about by the May 4th New Culture Movement, 1919. In this article, three works, namely The Song of Youth, Rose Door and The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, are selected as the research objects, and the life stories of the intellectual female protagonists in the three works, which share similar starting points but have different destinies, are examined. Through the comparison of individual life course, we can make clear the discrepancies among different female growth paths, and the female growth stories constitutes the dialogue structure of theme intertextuality in the history of literature.