Thesis information "The reception and inheritance of novel experience in Ho Bieu Chanh's writing" by HVCH Bui Thi Nga, majoring in Literary Theory.1. Full name of student: Bui Thi Nga 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of birth: November 1, 1985 4. Place of birth: Bum To, Muong Te, Lai Chau 5. Decision to recognize student No. 2551/2007/QD/XHNV-KH&SĐH dated November 2, 2007 by the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. 6. Changes in the training process: None 7. Thesis topic: The reception and inheritance of novel experience in Ho Bieu Chanh's writing 8. Major: Literary theory; 9. Code: 60 22 01 20 10. Scientific supervisor: Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Thanh Hung, Faculty of Literature, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. 11. Summary of the thesis results: Ho Bieu Chanh is one of the few Southern novelists who fully and comprehensively expressed the transitional nature of literature in the period 1900-1930. Since appearing on the national literary scene, his novels have had new features that are very suitable for the artistic perception of the Southern people in particular and most of the common people nationwide. With the active absorption of the quintessence of Eastern literature, the selective learning of the quintessence of Western literature, and the self-enrichment of his own abilities by absorbing experiences from the country's literary tradition, Ho Bieu Chanh has contributed to the innovation of novels in terms of plot construction, details, composition of works, character personalities, psychology and literary language of the works. Ho Bieu Chanh's reception, inheritance and experimentation in character building have contributed significantly to the art of building and developing character psychology in Vietnamese novels in the period 1930-1945 and to current Vietnamese literature. Ho Bieu Chanh also brought to the literature of the transitional period thrilling, attractive, suspenseful novels, attracting a large number of readers with the inheritance and learning of experiences from traditional novels in building plots, structures and time order. Besides the plots with many adventurous details, reflecting the reality of life, there are new plot types, adapted from the West but with Vietnamese colors, scenes and culture, giving readers fresh and familiar feelings. Ho Bieu Chanh has selectively inherited the traditional chapter structure and Nom poetry structure as well as creatively absorbed the modern structure of Western novels into his works. The art of language construction is also the most important and greatest contribution of Ho Bieu Chanh to the country's literature. With the absorption of Western techniques, harmonization with traditional techniques and the concept of bringing the language of life into literature, it has opened up lively and close pages in his novels. Ho Bieu Chanh boldly innovated the language of novels in all three aspects: vocabulary, phonetics and grammar, making his sentences both have the appearance of the Southern Delta and the breath of life, rich in images, easy to understand, easy to sympathize... truly reflecting the lifestyle of the people of Southern Vietnam in the early years of the 20th century.
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1. Full name of student: Bui Thi Nga. 3. Date of birth: 01 November 1985 4. Place of birth: Bum To, Muong Te, Lai Chau. 5. Decide to acccredit student number 2251…. Date November 2, 2007 from headmaster of University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi National University. 6. Change in training process: None. 7. Title of thesis: Novel experience reception and inheritance in Ho Bieu Chanh's writings. 8. Major: Theoretical of Literature. 9. Code: …. 10. Official instructor: AP, Dr. Pham Thanh Hung, Literature Faculty, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi National University. 11. Summary result of the thesis: Ho Bieu Chanh is one of a few Sothern novelists who presents fully and completely the characteristic of interchange literature in the period 1900 – 1930. Since his appearance in the national literature field, his novels have new features which are very suitable for art perception of Sothern people in particular and most of national popular people in common. With the positive reception of Oriental literature's cream, learning with sift of the Western Literature's cream and his self ability enrichment by absorbing the experience from national literature tradition, Ho Bieu Chanh has played his role in renewing novel in some aspects such as plot building, particulars, structure of the composition as well as personalities, psychology of character and literary language in compositions. Such those reception, inheritance and test of Ho Bieu Chanh in his character building have involved his considerable role in the art of building and development of Vietnam's novel character in the period 1930 – 1945 and the present Vietnam Literature. For the Literature of interchange period, Ho Bieu Chanh also created some interesting, fascinating novels which attracted readers by inheriting and learning experience of traditional novels in plot building, structure and timeline. Besides some plots with adventure details which frankly describe actual life, there are some kinds of new plots which assemble as the Western style but with Vietnam's color and prospect, that make new and close at hand feeling for readers. Ho Bieu Chanh inherits the style of chapter, episode and the style of Nom story-poem with sift as well as creative reception the style of modern structure in Western novel of his work. Language building art is also one of the best and the most important contribution of Ho Bieu Chanh into the national Literature. The Western technique reception, in the meeting with traditional technique and the conception of bringing the normal life language into Literature, opens up lively and closed at hand writing pages in his novels. Ho Bieu Chanh enterprises to renew the novel language in all three aspects: vocabulary, phonetic and grammar which makes his writing sentences to be in the form of Sothern delta's one but also has the breath of life, full of images, comprehensive, sympathetic … represent frankly the lifestyle of Sothern Vietnam people in the years of early XX century.
