Discuss On City & Country Consciousness And 1930s Literature

This article is mainly discussing about the relations between city & country consciousness and 1930s literature. In the statement, city & country consciousness is defined as a most objective reflection of the change of city & country in human brain, the absolutely subjective image of city & country and the active thinking activity about the change of it. Whereas this thinking activity are presented very protrude and dynamic. On this basis, there are four chapters in this article:Chapter 1 is around the literature locale,discussing about the literature locale under the 1930s'change of city & country. Because of the city & country consciousness which came from the gradually segregation and fierce change of city & country, it gave new impetus to the 1930s literature. On one hand, it urged the intellectual group taking part in practice in rural construction movement so that it became a very flourish business. However because lacking of thoroughness, it failed; on the other hand, urban culture was gradually prominent in 1930s, and it intensified the rural consciousness and culture so that the two literary genres:rural literature and urban literature were opposed to each other in New Literature. Chapter 2 is around the literature space, discussing about the problem of city & country consciousness and the migration of literature space. Because of the migration of city regime, the new literature space was gradually established. Additionally under the influence of regional culture, Beijing became the center of traditional culture, and on the impact of modern civilization, it became the site of mass contradictions. Whereas Shanghai as the new literature centre, under the control of consumerism, monetarism and commercialization, it appeared sensible, elaborate and effective urban consciousness, and permeated in the whole urban spiritual life. Besides that, due to different life mode and espoused value, the urban fringe zone became the most saturated expressive force of the contrast of city & country in literature.Chapter 3 is around the literature subject, discussing about the effects of city & country consciousness to literature subject. The mainly effects are manifested as follows:for one hand, the affinity-disaffinity relationship to local culture and urban culture, it brought about Beijing Group and Shanghai School's reorganization and identity of subject consciousness; on the other hand, the non-still city & country flow also shaped the narrating subject of city & country flow. Relative to city & country's narrating subject of 1940s'and the era of planned economy's literature, its asymmetric-flow was even serious. On the basis of creative subject and narrating subject's emotion, manner and concept, it emerged the both way of structure of feeling to country & city.Chapter 4 is around the literature aesthetic value, discussing about the city & country consciousness's construction of 1930's literature aesthetic value. There was a transient rural-urban literary aesthetic system and rendered it obtained different aesthetic experience to the previous single rural literary esthetic system. However the construction of city literary subject was imperfect, and was based on the unstable aesthetic experience so that it had to eliminate as the national revolution erupted and the concrete image of city collapsed. Both country and city relied on political discourse to give the deeper literary meaning, and then on the image of revolution, they were divided into revolution and non-revolution. In this situation, the 1930s' literature failed into fixed style.In the discussions of the above section, the conclusion can be found: under the contemplation of city & country consciousness,1930's city & country literary aesthetic system could have both fortes of rural culture and urban culture. However, the construction of the city subject was sane and its aesthetic experience was from outland and lacked of solid base. As the erupted national revolution resulted in the change of social nature and cut off the process of city aesthetic experience, it let most writers stopped expressing individual spirits. After blended in collective unconscious's creative work, the traditional rural aesthetic system can start to keep a firm hand on Chinese literature between the establishment of Republic of China and Open and Reform.