Literary Magazine And The 1930s Literature

As a widely-known left-wing progress monthly publication published in 1930s, Literature is a pure literature publication which had huge influence. Almost all of the famous writers at that time had published articles in it. It got into market under the name of a commercial publication. At that time, many famous writers acted as the authors of Literature for a long-term, meanwhile, young writers were vigorously fostered and educated. Many of the famous works in the history of modern Chinese literature were published in Literature. It was said that Literature had made tremendous contribution to Chinese development of new literature, and held a quite high historical position in literature creations of 1930s.Under the special social linguistic context of 1930s, Literature expressed its different political culture temperament which differed from it of other magzines. It continuously pushed forward the development of 30s' left-wing literature, and paid close attention to people's livelihood of the era. It started publication under the strict literature domination of Kuomintang. It strived to survive for four years. Its lifetime rank only second to it of Novel Monthly in the history of new literature publication. Its position couldn't be equaled by it of 30s'other magzines. Based on the konwlege of the analysis of periodical and the importance of Literature, the paper, with the title of'Literature'and literature of 1930s'---- the ananlysis of'literature', will lucubrate novel creation on Literature in order to make known its meaning and value. In 1930s, many famous pieces of writings were published in Literature, which represented the highest level of that age. In this paper, through the analysis of novel creation in Literature, I will divide these writings into fixed positions. Take Literature as the clue to investigate literature of 1930s, we could grasp the origin and course of development of 30s'literature more carefully and deeply. This paper with the systemic analysis of Literature is divided into three parts: in the first part, I will briefly introduct the whole story of Literature's starting publication and ending up and the literature background of that age. What's more, I try to make known the position which Literature held in 30s'literature works through its'Blend'in columns and weight of special issue of creation. In the second segment of this part, I briefly analyse the ranks of writers through full and accurate materials, and summarize and investigate the reasons for the formation of the group of writers. In this segment, I mainly summarize and analyse the above-mentioned facts and situations to arrive at a conclusion that the success of Literature thanks to the notion of'Blend'of redactors and active participation of the elder and younger writers. So to speak, this segment is the basis of the second, third part of the paper. The second part of the paper pays attention to left-wing literature in Literature. The rise of left-wing literature had influenced the course and structure of the development of Chinese literature in 20th century. Left-wing literature trended towards mature and boom in the mid and late thirties, during which Literature had made great contribution. Making use of the columns, such as editorial,book review, literature forum and so on, Literature critisized and directed left-wing literature, made right left-wing novels, deepened the themes of left-wing creation, expanded its subject matter, recommend left-wing new comers and writings, and provided left-wing literature a healthier road to develop. So to speak, Literature witnessed the prosperity of left-wing novels of 1930s.This part is to analyse the contribution that Literature made for making right left-wing literature, and the achievement that left-wing literature, published in Literature, got. The third part of the paper pays attention to particularity of novel creation published in Literature. As a widely-known progress publication of 1930s, Literature continuously paid much attention to economy, politics and people, and always expressed its social acknowledge through deep human consciousness. Standing on ordinary people's position all along , Literature pitilessly critisized evil acts and ugly countenance of bureaucrat and despotic gentry, which reflected its clear standpoint of criticism. Literature, a progress publication, was not only a text narrating people's livlihood, but also a revolution text of class revolt to a certain degree. It had the nature of intense political ideology, which stood opposite to government's domination. Unlike works in the early stage of Leftist Association, in which texts were filled with slogan of revolution and formulated and conceptualized phrase, its resistance narrative (expression of revolution) vividly represented the concept of revolution and resistance through real life scene. Revolution tendency was not only reflected in design of plot, characterization, etc. Emotional elements of vocabulary, elected by the writers, logical organaization and background narrative of works also represented unconscious and common revolution tendency. Therefore, works had both profound history and personalized features. As they had portrayed mature characters, gained artistic feeling, they had not lost meaning of revolution. It was why Literature held an important position in literary circles of 1930s.Lastly, historical position of Literature in the literature history of 1930s is reviewed and analysed through these three parts, and its unique and important value in the history of literature and text editing is revealed.