The Root-searching Literature: Reflection And Criticism On The Course Of Seeking For The Modernity

The Root-searching Literature is an important literature ideological trend in Chinese literary circle in the New Period, it is also a kind of literary reflection that the Chinese nation pursues to incorporate the development system of the world. The Root-searching writers not only proceeded to reflect the irregularities of modern self-reflection but also advocated recreating and reviving the traditional culture, at the same time they adopted used the modern consciousness to criticize it. The quality and style of the modernity that mingled with the tradition is presented in their works. On whether they should select the modernity or the tradition, the Root-searching writers' paradoxical psychology brought out many problems appearing their literary creation. The Root-searching Literature has gone downhill for the absurdity of itself. The writers' dream of reconstructing the culture hasn't come true.To study the Root-searching Literature, the thesis's breakthrough point is based on the modernity, connecting the theory explanation with text research. I have made great efforts to explore not only the complicated relationship between the Root-searching Literature and the modernity but also the reason why the condition come into being. Meanwhile, I have tried hard to combine the Root-searching Literature with the root-searching literature of the world, and tried to put it in the great cultural historical background.