Literary Aesthetic Tension In Ideological Discourse

This thesis researches on Chinese contemporary literature between 1949 and1976.By the means of returning to the literary scene,by the investigation of the interaction of the seventeen-year social life and literature,the author reviews and perceives the"seventeen-year" literary system,literary trends,literary criticism,literary narrative and literary aesthetic with specific historical forms,and attempts to explore the complex association of generative process and concrete representation of the self-discipline of seventeen-year-literature.Regarding this as a cutting point,the author makes summary and reflection to the experience and lessons of the seventeen-year-literature.The proposed topic is based on the following concerns,discussing the significance of contemporary seventeen-year-literature,the academia has established the interaction between contemporary social history and contemporary literature,but lacks the integrity study of the transformation and interaction between literary"self-discipline" and " heteronomy".Such an era as the national politics and literary creation are highly unified,it was taken granted that literature was a tool and means of ideological expression in the seventeen-year-literature.But at the same time,it is impossible to be absolute and pure for the transformation and discipline of the ideology to literary discourse,the aesthetic instinct of the creative subject and aesthetic inertia of literature have provided the seventeen-year-literature with corresponding literary aesthetic characteristics.In terms of the study of the seventeen-year-literature,we must focus on the a large number of highly complicated literary events,which have a significant impact on the literature,grasping the essence of the complicated transition in Contemporary Literature,listening to the internal sound growth of the literature history,and analyzing its process of struggle.The literary system of the seventeen-year-literature was affected by the system of left-wing literature and Yan’an literature,and gradually built through the first representative conference.The "integration" of the literary system made literature and politics in a highly homogeneous state,but the literary creation in the institutionalization age could not reach the degree of complete unification.Take the literary arts policy as an example,under the historical background that the dominant policies were becoming increasingly radicalized,in the mid-1950s and early 1960s,the adjustment of the policy appeared,these changes will make the control of the national will eased,the tension between the integrated literary views and intellectuals also tempered,released the limited space short for literature temporarily.At the same time from the perspective of literary magazines,a number of literary journals in keeping with the dominant ideology of the same height,including the "Arts","People’s Literature",also were characterized in certain moments and special problems,which were quite different from their "political character" and "literary character".They formed the relationship of tension and stress between the state and literature.The establishment of new China has changed the overall style of contemporary literature,and formed a trend of thought characterized by "praise" aesthetics,under this trend emerged in a lot of political and lyrical poet,Hu Feng,Lu Li,Lv Yuan and He Qifang in his poetry are to describe the joy and recognition of the new regime,but also reveals the contradictions of the real life and the inner dissociation of the poets.As overwhelmingly dominant contemporary literary trends of thought,centering on the concept of " realism",the creative method and manifestations seventeen-year-literature launched a long discussion.These discussions deepened the connotation of realism,corrected some misunderstanding on the cognition of realism,and had a positive impact on literature creation.Whether the novels of this stage or"The fourth kind of drama" appearance on the stage both made valuable breakthrough in the performance of content,artistic means,and style language etc,reflected the regression to the traditional realism of Chinese literature.In seventeen-year period,some theorists and critics who consciously abided by literary criticism and literary creation of self-discipline,their opinions clashed with those aesthetic critics dominated by political discourse,but they still advocated the use of literary and artistic direction of the policy itself The aesthetic criticism were played in favor of the role of the creation.Hu’s "subjective fighting spirit"undoubtedly was challenging in the literary horizons of seventeen years,for his display of writer spirit and initiative of publicity and defense of the independence of literature,;and YU Pingbo "Dream of Red Mansions study",whose approach,ideas and accomplishments are still a major harvest for the contemporary study of "Dream of Red Mansions";Ba Ren’s "on the human",Wang Shuming’s "theory of human nature and human",Qian Gurong’s " Literature is human science " and corrected the previous thinking set that replacing the human nature with the class nature in literature ideology,who re-established the dominant position of human in the literary creation.Novel "Red Day" not only describes the battles of revolutionary army travelling thousands of miles,also illustrates the daily life of the soldiers at intervals between wars,and accounts their voice and face vividly as well.It is this attention to daily life that provides the works with a rich historical connotation.In the cracks of the folk and mainstream ideology,the novels having the qualities of popular literature represented by "Railway Guerrillas",find a development path of integration.They also show that on the one hand the novels in nature need the narrative twists and vivid legendary,on the other hand the literature self-discipline having the great charm of aesthetic publicity.Novel "Red Flag" tells the relationship of the modem intellectuals burdened with historical mission with China’s rural social change,and rewrite modern Chinese intellectuals’ spiritual contents."Song of Youth",as a growing "Bildungsroman",deals with the petty bourgeoisie,in the hidden relationship between the discourse of revolution and class struggle,underlies a kind of latent female discourse.In part of the poems of Guo Xiaochuan and the novels of Chen Xianghe,the authors put their own understanding and perception of life into the text,with their own confusion and creative thinking in more subtle or tactful way.Their writing constitutes the diversity of the literary discourse of the seventeen-year-literature.To examine the self-discipline in the seventeen-year-literature from the aspects of style,artistic from and language,the author finds that the typical writers such as Sun Li,Ru zhijuan,represented by their graceful,fresh,lyrical aesthetic style which had made a breakthrough in the artistic barriers of the mainstream literature generally featured as "nobility".The abandonment and transformation of the-seventeen-year novels to the traditional serial novels,which not only provides some possibilities to explore the "national form" of the novel,but also brings a variety of aesthetic experience to the literature creation of that time.In language,seventeen-year-rural-novels enriched the connotation of new literature with its more mature local practice,in addition,it has made outstanding contribution to the combination of elegance and popularity,colloquialism and consistency of life,and Zhao Shuli was one of the outstanding representatives.Seventeen-year-literature has the striking feature of ideology affected by the social history and politics.With this feature,its literary aesthetics has long been ignored intentionally or unintentionally,even has been shielded in a time.However,just as any individual cannot be absolute and pure,the literature of the time cannot be absolute and pure either.As the internalized quality of literature in the "body",seventeen-year-literature shows its side of "literature is literature" among various kinds of "cracks" and "slots".It not only never minds the literary fact but also goes against the position and attitude in literary study to ignoring this side.