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"New Literature" And "Old Tradition":The Interaction Between Modern And Traditional Zhanghui Novels, Bingru Guo
"New Literature" And "Old Tradition":The Interaction Between Modern And Traditional Zhanghui Novels, Bingru Guo
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Zhanghui novel epitomizes classical Chinese fiction and is one of the main constituents of its narrative tradition. The different and varying understandings of zhanghui novels by new literature in different historical periods influenced not only the relationship between new literature and "old tradition," but also, significantly, the concept of modern fiction and its creative practice. Despite Western literature's impact on modern Chinese fiction, it still developed in close relation to old traditions, including the zhanghui novel. This phenomenon displays new literature's complicated relationships with literary tradition, historical context and social reality, as well as its historical trajectory of genesis, …
Political Or Ethical: Chen Duxiu's Motive For Writing "Towards A Literary Revolution", Xu Xu
Political Or Ethical: Chen Duxiu's Motive For Writing "Towards A Literary Revolution", Xu Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chen Duxiu's motive for writing "Towards a Literary Revolution" has been widely understood on the political level. This conception is based on its historical consequence and therefore controversial among scholars. To put the article into its original context, a solid correlation can be found between the debate on literary revolution and the slogan of "reforming national characters." Combined with the anti-Confucian revolution back then and the textual performance of the article, it can be argued that, for Chen Duxiu, the concern of ethics was more imperative than that of society or politics. In this view, to reconnect "Towards a Literary …
The Paradox Of "Self": New Literature's Ethical Problems Of "Individual Liberation", Jianhua Song
The Paradox Of "Self": New Literature's Ethical Problems Of "Individual Liberation", Jianhua Song
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The new literature relies on the form of "natural person" to pursue the ideals of "self" and "freedom", which indeed promoted the historical progress of Chinese society. However, this type of absolute "self" and "freedom" also directly destabilized the ethical relationship in traditional culture, thus making people's behavior disordered. Once the "self" was placed above society and broke away from the control of social moral norms, the opposition between the "self" and society emerged, and the "self" eventually fell into ideological confusion as it could no longer exist. For new literature, the shift from blind optimism to rational thinking in …