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Research About Literature Secularization Under The Market Economy Context

Posted on:2009-01-07Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H M ChuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360242495033Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Literature secularization of contemporary literature has become an important literary and cultural phenomenon, as a literary study cannot be ignored existence by end of the 20th century. Secular literature reflects various conflicts of the transition, including the sociology, political science, economics, culture, aesthetics, psychology and other facets of their complex content. The significance of Literature secularization research lies in: I proposed the major question we must confront when we research the contemporary Chinese literature. As China's economy from the planned transition to a market economy, the secularization has become the dominant discourse context. The evaluation of the secular literature can not be avoided in the study of Chinese Contemporary Literature. This paper attempts to study literature secularization from the perspective of the culture with market economy context, and analysis its principal characteristics in order to further explore its deep certain spiritual needs, so as to examine the significance and special role of the secularization in Chinese Contemporary Literature.Introduction: This part defines the "secular" which relates to the core concept of the paper. And then, I point out my understanding of secular literature. With the study of china's secularization of the culture and literary, I discuss the major ways and methods about the paper. At last, I analyse major significance and status of the secular literature under the market economic context.The first chapter is pointed out that secularization has become an important literary phenomenon under the market economy. Following the several important shifts, I analysis of the phenomenon. In the first part, I grasp the overall cultural identity of the authors in the social transition period from the social culture and writers identity perspective. In the second part, I verify the secular literature mainly from the vanguard literature with transition from poetry and novels, and point out that literature from vanguard to secular literature not only reflects the history transition, but also shows that the writer consciously Pursuit of Aesthetics. In the third part, Wang Meng and Liu Xinwu as the examples were once described in the 1980s of the 20th century with the status of a mainstream writer, and the secular writing and cultural choices after entering the 1990s.The second chapter, literary secularization has become a part of the writers conscious pursuit because of disappointment. As China's political and economic evolution, the late 1980s, especially since the 1990s, elite culture was facing an unprecedented predicament, a common frustration was diffused in Chinese culture. Popular culture gradually replaced elite culture into the mainstream culture, the spiritual status of intellectuals was shaken and subversion. People concerned about the practical interests from the revolution, the political fanaticism gradually, and the secular literature has become the author's conscious pursuit after disappointed. This chapter is divided into two, in the first part I mainly focus on Wang Shuo's money concept and commercial awareness, the literary concepts, the role of secular position and the edge of the public figures "urban Wanzhu" image, I point out that Wang Shuo's creation impacted the secular orientation and the subsequent literature in detail. In the second part, the new realistic writers mainly dispel the sacrifice and choose common customs'culture. It is the first time that the new realism novels describe the "ecological" secular life with the whole attitude. It is also the overall response to the secularization in the literature. The secularization has become the driving deep force for the authors of the new realism. Talking secular desire is being activated as a kind of driving force from the two aspects about disappointment of utopia and the process of social and cultural transformation. And then, I analyze the specific performance about the new realism novels. I choose Chi li and Fang Fang as two cases in order to explain the individual differences in secular culture.The third chapter is to focus on the rationalization and substances discourse about secular literature. First of all, individuals'material need is being paid more attention on the social and cultural transformation and secular literature without unprecedent. In the market economy era, material discourse as a strong discourse enters in the literature and has a great impact. Secular literature on the substance words reflects the aspirations of the personal material; on the other hand, the absence of this kind of material demands certain guidance and norms. Especially, under the influence of the consumer culture, it is becoming of the increasingly fanatical pursuit of material desires. However, secular does not mean material desires. Secular does not necessarily lead to material desires. At this stage, China has a material desires because of many causes. Then, I verify the material aspects from three aspects, including the material pursuit and person of the physical things, displaying of the physical space and the soul struggling and confusion with material squeezed. Finally, I explain the diversification of the material recognition from the perspective of the main writers. During its period of transition, writers reveal their personal material recognition on the whole attitude. However, due to the differences of individual life experiences, values, the social and cultural context, it emerges the individual differencesThe fourth character of is discovery and writing of the daily life. Secular literature's writing on the daily life shows the importance of secular life, on the other hand, and it is the political ideology of the backwash. Chinese literature and politics is linked closely, so daily life was always neglected in the past literature. The shielded secular literature will liberate the daily life from the oppressed politics, and as its performance targets and aesthetic objects, making the daily life re-gained value and significance. People no longer pursue value from the sacred distant shore, but rather to seek from the daily survival of their own. However, the daily lives of its own characteristics, in particular the arrival of the consumer society, it faces distorted destiny again with the daily life from the suppression of political ideology and then re-entered the consumer ideological traps. Secular literature shows the daily lives of the efforts to extricate himself from his political ideology. On the other hand, it is in trouble because of the daily experience of the author over-indulgence, lacking of the spirit of its increasing in the consumer society. Criticism about daily must be carried out, and the spirit is needed to upgrade, so as to make daily life can gradually be unrestrained from being a daily own.The fifth chapter is about emotional returning and Physical writing. First, I pursue the transition of philosophy of the body and the evolution of Chinese culture and literature concept of the body so as to point out the importance of the body in the culture and literature. And then, resistance from the physical body and consumption were two aspects of secular literature on the importance of physical writing performance, and on this basis that the current body of secular literature faces multiple difficulties and paradoxes. Under the consumer Cultural Context, the influence of rational emotive partial was remedied to the right way, at the same time, we embarked on the physical and emotional Utopia, along the foul secular literature, vulgarize direction. In revealing the difficulties and Paradox, the body should be conducted by the Aesthetics. We must make rational and emotional emotive harmonious develop, both physical and mental. Only this, we can show the secular literature in a healthy direction.Conclusion part has a rational reflection and evaluation about the secularization of the literature on the whole, and add a interpretation of relevant issues .At the same time, I point out that the new era fiction impacted by secular literature has a reasonable reality. On the other hand, the secularization has been shown that it tends to be wanton deconstruction about the spirit of the Chinese culture, we must pay sufficient attention to the matter. Secularization has negative impacts, such as the vulgarization and low and degrading tendency. All the things should be criticized. At last, I put forward the solutions.The innovation lies in this: First, the defining and order of the "secularization" of the East and West in the context, and on the basis of it I proposed my understanding on the connotations of the secular literature; Second, I seize the literary characteristics of the secular phenomenon and the dialectical analysis and interpretation. In addition, I recognize the positive and rational side on secular literature, and pay attention to of the negative factors in order to dialectical analysis of the present existence of the secular literature of the issue and try to answer. Inadequacy of the works involved are relatively narrow coverage, the characteristics of secular literature should also be further analyzed in depth, theoretical knowledge, there is still further strengthened.
Keywords/Search Tags:Market Economy, literary secularization, Cultural Selection, Material desires, Daily, Body
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