Red Reason And Revolutionary War Literature,

In the light of Kant' s philosophy of reason and symbolism philosophy on culture of his successors-Cassirer and his student Langer, both of which were major representatives of new Kantism, and with an academic framework and logic axis of the interactive relationships between two major literary elements: the reason and the feeling, this paper systemically examines general styles and features of revolutionary war literature of the period 1950-1966(so-called the 17-year period after foundation of PRO , its essential laws of the literary text production and commercial circulation as well as the possible controlling mechanism over the literature which may be dominated by the reason. With a brief review of the historical proceeding of Chinese war literature and a compared analysis of the reason' s feature and the aesthetic appealing of the Chinese classical war literature, it has tracked the origin and the grow of modern Chinese revolutionary war literature and has hereby found out a special literary spirit of reason, named red reason, which is very different from any other existent literature of war and can fully be taken as a symbol of this type of literature. Next, from a retrospection of the historical changing of human spirits of reason, particularly through a principal comparison of the reason of capitalism with another modern reason桵arxism, both of which have a deep and lasting effects on the human thoughts and spirits in the modern and contemporary history, it constructs a philosophical coordinate for the red reason based on the combination of Marxism with the concrete practice of Chinese revolution; in this new philosophical system, the core idea of the red reason is "on violent revolution", which is united with the abstruse notion of revolutionary humanitarianism. The article also shows that a historical pulsation of Chinese revolutionary war literature is astonishingly coordinated with the formation and communication of the red reason in China both synchronously and sequentially. To further clarify the interactive relationships between the red reason and the revolutionary war literature,by the combination of theoretical explanation with analyses of amounts of the literary text, it elaborately investigates the induction effects of the red reason on individual literary elements such as the mode of subjective thinking, the formation of literary texts and the marketing communication, etc.. First of all , the investigation indicates that the red reason generally functions by intriguing author' s writing motivation and induces aesthetic consciousness of the subject toward the mode of dual antithesis of thinking. Secondly, it can lead writers' major appeal to a highly concentrated theme closely associated to the spirit of heroism, optimism, collectivism and humanitarianism characteristic of revolution through representing the history of revolution, digging the particular aesthetic of revolutionary war, delineating the people' s essence of the revolutionary war and expressing the revolutionary fervour. Thirdly, it turns the character of images to be generalized, politicalized, formularized and extremized which may be attributed to the origin of so-called heroic images of contemporary Chinese literature. Fourthly, it affects narrative style of works with such characteristics of so-called grand recit as deliberately pursuing the important revolutionary events, focusing on the heroic figures and heightening the Utopia ethics, and with an effort to hide the poetic flavour into the description of the revolutionary history which comes to forge a typical style of epics. In addition, the paper also compares the legendary of the revolutionary war literature, which is one of most striking literary features of it, with the traditional chivalrous heroic novel, and shows the revolutionary war literary works lay legendary on solid basis of historical truth which is very different from fully imaginary chivalrous fictions and may be regarded as a remarkable advantage of it that can produce the same artistic attractiveness as tra...