A Study On The Images Of Anti-Japanese War Literature

In recent years,with the "image turn" proposed,the research perspective of literary image has provided a new growth point for literary research.This dissertation takes the images of the Anti-Japanese War literature as the research object,combines the research methods of "text close reading" and "image gazing",grasps the cultural context of the Anti-Japanese War period as a whole,focuses on literary images such as poems with paintings,comic strips,and cover illustrations of literary books and periodicals,analyzes the text-image relations of the images of the Anti-Japanese War literature,and explores the main artistic forms and characteristics of the images of the Anti-Japanese War literature.The Anti-Japanese War culture came into being in the era of war when the development of politics,economy and society was unbalanced.The nature of semicolonial and semi-feudal society promoted the integration of enlightenment into national salvation,self-awakening and national consciousness.The images of the AntiJapanese War literature are the product of the context of the Anti-Japanese War culture,and to a certain extent reflect the living conditions and spiritual outlook of the people during the Anti-Japanese War.From the perspective of image carriers,poems with paintings,comic strips,the cover illustrations of literary books and periodicals are the main carriers of the images of the Anti-Japanese War literature,showing different image narrative features in many aspects,such as the forms of language and image,the different text-image relations.The Anti-Japanese War poems with paintings take the form of combination of languages and images,mainly including the Anti-Japanese War street poems with paintings,the Anti-Japanese War freehand poems with paintings,and the Anti-Japanese War narrative poems with paintings.Among them,the Anti-Japanese War poems with paintings transformed language images into graphic images,achieving the functions of propaganda,lyricism,and narration in the fusion of language and image,presenting a mutually explanatory and complementary text-image relations.During the AntiJapanese War,the street poems with paintings borrowed from folk art forms to infect the people,led the people with the shaping of heroes,and played a role in propaganda and mobilization.In the process of inheriting and seeking change,the Anti-Japanese War freehand poems with paintings depict the image schema of suffering,resistance and freedom,and show the people’s journey of seeking freedom from the spiritual "dark house" during the war.The Anti-Japanese War narrative poems with paintings portray the image of turning farmers,mirror the production activities and turning lives of farmers in the new era,and reflect the spiritual outlook of farmers in the new era.The Anti-Japanese War literature comic strips combine continuous language and pictures to achieve the combination of time and space,integrating single,serial,and unit narratives.They have narrative characteristics such as storytelling,continuity,and literariness,and exhibit a text-image relation of "interpreting text with images","interpreting images with texts" and "text and images interpreting with each other".The Anti-Japanese War literature comic strips mainly reproduce various scenes through perspective changes,color matching,and object arrangement,reflecting the suffering brought by the war and the people’s struggle in the midst of suffering.The images and literary works in the Anti-Japanese War literature periodicals usually take the separating form of language and image.Under the guidance of different editorial policies,they show different degrees of intertextuality.The images of literary periodicals such as Anti-Japanese War Literature and Art,Literature and Art Positions,Beacon Fire,and July show various tendencies and styles such as mass-oriented tendency,breakthrough forces,and battlefield representation.Woodcut,caricature,and line drawing are the main artistic forms of images in the literature of the Anti-Japanese War,with their distinctive aesthetic characteristics,reflecting the cultural psychology and aesthetic orientation of people during the war.The Anti-Japanese War woodcut shows the aesthetic characteristics of "beauty of strength".The Anti-Japanese War caricature has a distinct tendency of satirical criticism.The Anti-Japanese War line drawing shows the style characteristics of fine drawing.The images of the Anti-Japanese War literature combine literature and images,tradition and modernity,publicity and artistry,showing the experience of literary and artistic creation centered on the "people",while also exposing varying degrees of artistic limitations.