Possibility And Limitation

During the Auti-Japanese War, there had been a large number of fictions with strongly lyrical feature in the Guomintang occupied areas, influenced by special environment including politic, culture and geography. They embodied the writers' spirit of exploring on art and stood for new trend of modern literature. The dissertation focus depth analysis on the possibility and limitation from the standpoint of lyric. Here, the lyric not only belongs to one style, but also ideal and will, even ideology. So, it carries aesthetic energy to change reality potentially. On the base of the unified description and analysis to them, we find four kinds of the most typically emotional forms, lonesome, radicalness, harmonious and transcending. On the one hand, they are individual, and on the other hand, they are united,symbolize the explosion that the writers had done something for our nation's future.First, the lonesome is corresponding to the enlightenment theme. With persevering or rethinking about the modern thought of enlightenment, the writers expressed their true feelings sincerely by their own true experience in life. In works, the subject Individual liberation was ahead of national, so, the feeling carried deeply social meaning. It embodied writers' ideal and pursue, at the same time, indicated the difficulty to realize it. If you ask the reasons, we can find them from one-side understanding about the May-Fourth thought, the shortage of traditional culture resources, the crankiness to individual experience and so on, they had showed the limitation of enlightenment during war.Second, the radicalness is corresponding to the battle theme. At first, the writes were going to wade into the real fighting by radically subjective spirit, they hoped make their vast feelings into epic at the times, and could hold the essence of history by the perfect combination of the subjective and the objective. But, as a result, the unbridled engery from this passion had exceeded rationality, and gained the subject placement. it constituted a threat to party control, it could not be kept on. Moreover, the emotional rhythm was whirling because of political and writer's insufficient thought. So, at the end, this fighting embodied stirring esthetics.Third, the harmonious is corresponding to the aesthetism. The writers' lyrical ideal was the united human and the universe, they took the feeling as constant thing in history, opposited to noble works. But, it was unbalanced between eternity and change, during the war. It was full of anxious in works. And the feeling could not be expressed by specific images, but by abstraction and symbol. These modern intellectuals had hoped their works could reconstruct national future. But they suffered a great failure, because this feeling was not welcome by the mainstream ideology. It was also self-contradictory. They could not keep up with the drasticly changing reality. It seemed no way but crazy.Fourth, transcending is corresponding to the poetic history theme. In works, the writer made story of revenge poetic, delaying the historical figure's behavior. He payed attention to the figure's transcendce in spirit, and reposed reality on it. Behind of the lyric, we can get to know that the writer was eager about history of the ancient times, he hoped get strength from the returning to hometown. The figure had grew up under this inspiration, he could wake up others in silence, this was also one kind of enlightenment. But, we know, the lyric is related to voice. if the writer could explore new way to express his ideal, the lyric would not be continued. the dialectical of the reality and history made the lyric into irony.One word, at the great historical turn, including the turn of politics, thought and culture's,if we want to know modern intellectuals how to adjust the intense and intimate relation between himself and the country,nation and even the whole history, the lyric is the most appropriate angle. The feeling is the most subjective than other factors of style. We can find more profuse spirit in human life. So, the study on it has especial value in academe.