The Economic Consciousness And Literary Space Construction Of Shanghai Literary Journals In 1925-1937

The prosperity of modern literary periodicals is inseparable from the strong thrust of the literary market and the diverse needs of readers.Based on editing practice of economic consciousness,different kinds of literary journals have formed their own unique style and participated in the construction of multiple and complex literary space in Shanghai.This paper focuses on the comparative study of different kinds of literary journals in the same social and historical context,mainly from the economic point of view,in-depth study of different journal’s distinctive style and text content,fully tap the relationship between literary journals,market and readers,explore the role of economic consciousness of literary journals in the construction of multiple forms of modern literature space in Shanghai.Re-recognize the literary value and economic value created by modern literary journals in the history of modern literature.The first chapter mainly describes the economic and cultural form of Shanghai from 1925 to 1937,and the development of Shanghai literature market under its influence.The improvement of the remuneration system,the knowledge and reading needs of the public readers,and the wide spread of modern printing media,promotes the professional writing of writers and the rapid development of journals,which makes the modern literature market gradually mature.The second chapter mainly analyzes the purpose of the founding of Violet,Sun Monthly and Modern,introduces the reader groups and reader consciousness of the three journals,discusses the relationship between literary journals and readers,and expounds the commercial marketing strategies of the three journals in the literary market.In the third chapter,the popular literature journal Violet,the revolutionary literature journal Sun Monthly,the modernist literature journal Modern,active in Shanghai from 1925 to 1937,are the main research objects.From the economic point of view,this paper re-recognize the citizens’ daily life space,the revolutionary ideology space and the modern urban space constructed by the three based on modern urban life,which reproduces the economic life of Shanghai citizens in the 1920 s and 1930 s,and promotes the popularization and diversified development of literary space.The fourth chapter mainly analyzes the relationship between the economic consciousness of literary journals and the space of modern literature.It reveals that the editing and creation practice of popular literary journals,revolutionary literary journals and modernist literary journals based on economic consciousness.It push forward the popularization of literature space,promotes the prosperity of literature style,and constructs the complex and diverse form of modern literature space.In this paper,the popular literature journal Violet,the revolutionary literature journal Sun Monthly,the modernist literature journal Modern,are the representatives of Shanghai literary journals from 1925 to 1937,and makes a comparative analysis of their editing practice based on economic consciousness.It holds that the citizens’ daily life space,the revolutionary ideology space and themodern urban space constructed by the three,together promote the multiple construction of modern literature space in Shanghai.By combing and summarizing the relationship between the economic consciousness and the construction of literary space of the three kinds of literary periodicals,we can find the contradiction and unity between the literariness and commercialism of literary periodicals,which endows the modern literary spatial economic consciousness and complexity.Whether conforming to the historical trend or forming the historical characteristics,it is a reasonable phenomenon in the development process of modern literature,which helps to re-examine the historicity and twists of modern literature history.