The present thesis is a study of literary supplements. In the revolutionary base of the time there were few literary journals and literary supplements of newspapers were the important place for writers to publish their works. Literary supplement is one of the effective ways to guide the literary direction. Liberation Daily? Literature and Art is the most influential newspaper supplement in the Liberated Area, which was issued from September 16, 1941to March 30,1942, publishing 243 literary works of various genres of more than 600 thousand words in the total 111 issues. Liberation Daily? Literature and Art was not long in life but the time of its publication was a critical time in which an important turn in the development of the Liberated Area literature took place. As Mao Zedong said in his letter to Kai Feng on the occasion of Liberation Daily's correcting that"it can be hoped that newspapers turn to complete Party papers from incomplete Party papers", Liberation Daily? Literature and Art witnessed the Liberated Area literature's historical turn from incomplete Party literature to complete Party literature.The thesis has soundly verified the transitional features of Liberation Daily? Literature and Art at the turn of the Liberated Area literature with faithful historical data in literature and careful text reading. The study of theLiberation Daily? Literature and Art is still a blank and the present research is of significance for literary history.The thesis is composed of 6 parts.The first Chapter studies the generative context for Liberation Daily? Literature and Art. Liberation Daily? Literature and Art was rooted in the cultural soil of the reality in the Liberated Area and based upon the Soviet Area literary supplements whose literary tradition became one of its important ideological resources. The flowing of the... |