Research On The Literature Series Of The Literary Research Association

The Literature Series of the Literary Research Association is a series of literary books edited by the Literary Research Association and published by related publishing companies.Beginning in 1921 and ending in 1947,the Literary Research Society edited and published six sets of literary series during the 26 years,which had a big influence at that time.This thesis takes the Literature Series of the Literary Research Association as research object,taking a insight into the editing and publishing process of the "Literature Series" of the Literary Research Association.We also summarized the full picture of "Literature Series" and discussed the occurrence of "for life" literature.As an editor of the series,Zheng Zhenduo had his own position for new literary.He advocated "theory of literary sentiment",but different from the Creation Society,Zheng Zhenduo pursued the independence of literature,and at the same time gave it a new moral color,which was integrated with the realistic literary view of "for life".The Origin Of The Literary Research Association Series is a theoretical guidance of the Literature Series editor by the Literary Research Association,and it also fits with the literary outlook of the editor-in-chief Zheng Zhenduo.The Origin explains the reasons and goals of the Literature Series publishing,that is,to change the world’s fallacies and prejudices on literature and rectify the name of literature.More importantly,the editors want to introduce world literature and create new Chinese literature.Under such guidance,the Literary Research Association successively published six sets of books with the Commercial Press and Kaiming Bookstore.Except for The Literature Weekly Series,the other five sets are all published by the Commercial Press.It is worth mentioning that the Commercial Press provides a publishing platform and economic support for the Literary Research Association,and the Commercial Press win a good reputation through the publication of a series of books.The works in the Literature Series of the Literary Research are composed of foreign literary translations,new literary creations,literary criticism and literary history.The most representative one is The Literary Research Association Series,including all the above categories.The other series of books extend and refine The Literary Research Association Series.The Literature Series of the Literary Research Association presents the characteristics of a series of books run by critics as a whole.Therefore,the books in the series attach great importance to the introduction of literary knowledge and literary thoughts,such as literary criticism and literary history.Moreover,most of the tome in the Literature Series of the Literary Research Association is still pure literary works.Such works include translations of excellent foreign literary works and new literary creations of local writers.In addition,the Literature Series of the Literary Research Association shows the complementary characteristics of publications and series in the production process from editing to publishing,and the creation and translation teams of the works are basically composed of members of the Literary Research Association.The Literary Research Association’s translation and creation of foreign realistic literary works and related literary criticism have promoted the occurrence of "for life" literature in modern China.The "Literature Series" is a powerful proof.In the choice of translation works,they had a broad vision of world literature.They listed the classic literary works of various countries in the Literary Research Association Series Catalog in an attempt to obtain literary resources from it.However,due to the needs of reality,realist literature dominates the actual published "literary series",which is specifically manifested in the translation and introduction of Russian realist literature,French naturalist literature and British realist drama.These translated works are deeply involved in the occurrence of "for life" literature.In the Literature Series under the name of the Literary Research Association,there is also a relatively special Literary Research Association Popular Drama Series,which mainly contains popular and modern scripts suitable for Chinese readers.These are social dramas that focus on life issues,reflecting the "for life" tendency of the literary works of the Institute of Literature in drama literature.Its content themes mainly include the opposition between free love and arranged marriages,leaving as a "female" identity and its predicament,establishing education to awaken self-awareness,and ruthlessly exposing the darkness of society.