The thesis is mainly divided into five parts: introduction, the causes of Zhang Ailing's clothing complex, the relationship between clothing and female characterization in the novel, clothing aesthetics and conclusion.
The introduction mainly reveals the important value and research status of the clothing research in Zhang Ailing's novels, and thinks that the research on this topic is of novel significance, but the academic exploration on this topic is far from enough, and there is a very broad room for improvement, which needs to be filled by researchers urgently, thus expanding Zhang Ailing's research horizons and deepening Zhang Ailing's research efforts.
The first chapter mainly studies Zhang Ailing's clothing complex, and makes an in-depth study on the formation of her clothing complex. For Zhang Ailing, she is obsessed with the study of dressing up, carefully carving the appearance and appearance of female characters in novels, for many reasons. It is the interaction of various factors that forms Zhang Ailing's unique and distinctive clothing complex. Among them, there are nostalgia for the material abundance and extravagance of families in ZTE period, as well as cultural guidance and modern enlightenment from relatives and friends; Both the lack of material and the external environment have suppressed her, and the psychological compensation mechanism of breaking through the suppression and seeking satisfaction is at work.
The second chapter mainly reveals the relationship between dress description and female characterization in Zhang Ailing's novels. Zhang Ailing always pursues the full display of characters' personalities when portraying characters in costumes. The simple and clear description of characters' costumes shows a tendency to approach traditional classical aesthetics, which is inseparable from Zhang Ailing's love for classical novels such as A Dream of Red Mansions. Therefore, this kind of clothing description consciously distanced itself from the western modernist novels that pay attention to the inside story in aesthetic expression. The relationship between clothing description and characterization mainly includes three aspects, namely, setting off the psychology of characters, revealing their personalities and highlighting their fate. This connection is not superficial and mechanical, but deep and organic, and it is an artistic connection among text representation, character soul and aesthetic theme.
The third chapter mainly discusses Zhang Ailing's view of costume aesthetics revealed by the description of women's costumes in the novel. The writer's artistic construction method is bound to show the unique cultural concept, aesthetic ideal and artistic philosophy of the creative subject, which is an important embodiment of the writer's life feeling and artistic personality. Especially for a modern writer like Zhang Ailing, her obsession and profound research on clothing has become a well-known topic, so the artistic construction of female characters in the novel inevitably implies her profound and unique aesthetic concept. Zhang Ailing's clothing aesthetics is characterized by appealing to both refined and popular tastes and the inherent demands of various cultural elements. And experienced a tortuous process of change, from the early pursuit of dullness to the middle-aged longing for mystery and then to the return of dullness in her later years, which is the track of her aesthetic interest in clothing all her life; In addition, Zhang Ailing's complex and diverse clothing aesthetic concepts contain profound philosophy of life. Her and the characters' clothes imply aesthetic perception and cultural philosophy towards the world, and her obsession with material details implies her nihilistic world outlook, which is the paradox of modernity and anti-modernity, and also creates the vividness and profundity of Zhang Ailing's clothing writing.
The conclusion part mainly summarizes the above contents and reiterates the importance of Zhang Ailing's clothing portrayal and the urgency and necessity of the research. Moreover, many contemporary female writers in China are deeply influenced by Zhang Ailing's clothing description and have made many literary achievements. However, due to the lack of understanding, there are some artistic deviations. Therefore, it is very realistic and necessary to deepen the study of Zhang Ailing's clothing art description for the writer's creation and to highlight the aesthetic culture of the Chinese nation.
The innovation of this paper is not limited to the artistic scanning and combing of the female characters' clothing landscape in Zhang Ailing's novels, but attempts to go deep into the phenomenon, excavate and reveal the comprehensive reasons for the phenomenon, and study and explore Zhang Ailing's clothing complex and aesthetic concept, so that the generation of literary description is also logical, which not only highlights the academic value of the research, but also highlights the practical guiding significance of the topic selection.