A Study On The Rational Characteristics Of The Late Romantic

This thesis starts from the research on rational characteristics. Set in a background of the development of Romanticism in the twenties and thirties and with the vision of the literary pattern of the1940s, this paper explores the rational characteristics and representation of the Late Romantic in comparison with Western Romanticism, focusing on the school represented by Xuxu and Wu Mingshi. They are discussed from three levels in four chapters.Chapter1, from the perspective of individual rationality, explores how the Late Romantic writers, as introspective individuals at the edge, find the meaning of being alive when away from the mainstream and how they realize the enhancement of the ideal state and the perfection of life while in self-exile. This chapter is mainly stated from two aspects:the "passive" marginalization of late Romantic writers due to the anxiety and hardship in the pursuit of cultural sustenance; the "active" marginalization of late Romantic writers due to their sympathetic and contemptuous attitude towards reality that originates from their indifference towards politics and insistence on humanity.Chapter2, from the perspective of moral reason, discusses the way of the Late Romantic creation that looks at the gain and loss of Chinese traditional civilization and western modern civilization, and the complete system that ingeniously integrating Chinese traditional moral reason and pragmatic reason and the tool reason and scientific rationality of western modern civilization, enduing the traditional morality to modern rationality, regarding religion as a destination, seeking moral reason.Chapter3, from the perspective of modern media rationality, describes the fundamental strong point which realizes the late Romantic "popular". Xuxu and anonymous ingeniously integrate the narrative, individual rationality and moral reason, and transfer to reversal episode, philosophical language, control lyrical and so on, which meet the aesthetic media reason of modern mass. Thereby they achieve the romanticism transformation from the early elite that who write for himself, to the popular that who write for the others in1940s.Chapter4, from the perspective of rational paradox, explores the embarrassment of the ultimate "The Entire View of the Universe" that Xuxu and anonymous are looking for. It includes two aspects:the tragedy sense arising from the collision between individual rationality and moral reason, and the resentment of the "moral idealism" brought about by the metaphysical demanding and the lack of entity.Finally, with a rational perspective, this thesis arguments the essential characteristics of the late Romantic. It is not to say that the Late Romantic is Pseudo-romanticism, but further elaborated that the development of Romanticism in the1940s is still in a dilemma, between tradition and modernity, native and foreign culture, individual and group, reality and ideality, authors and readers and so on. At last, it is attributed to tangle between reason and transcendence by Xuxu and Wu Mingshi. Also, the richness, complexity, aesthetic of Romantic literature, and the meaning that can give us to think about is being there.