Sino-american City Literature Of The 20th Century Comparative Study

This article from the definition of urban literature, analyzes the background of urban literature, and according to the urban literature text, from awful-sounding positive and negative city literature themes: money criticizing and critic, modern city with city decaying. The two typical selected cities: Beijing and Shanghai, New York and Chicago. This paper described in these cities as selected works of paper compares object, draws the conclusion.Full text is divided into four parts:the first is the urban literature summary; Second is the theme of the urban literature classification; Then the city literature character analysis; It also expounds the city literature study of the theoretical value and practical significance.The first part discusses the definition of urban literature. This article will make "city literature" and "the urban literature," "civic literature" comparison to find out the uniqueness of the urban literature. The next from three aspects of social economy and culture, explains the urban literature, the background of this change for below concretely describes make matting.The second part of urban literature topics. The subject from two aspects: the positive is divided respectively the praise and criticism. First to Sister Carrie represented, works such as critical and moral critical analysis of money. The performance theme The second is Whitman and fort Thornton poetry as the research object, the article discusses the big machine industry under the background of New York and Chicago praise. Meanwhile, "new feeling" in Shanghai sent as a representative of praise of the city "live a luxury and dissipation life".The third part is the urban literature character image analysis. In this paper the city were selected the most representative of three categories of people: citizens, emerging capitalist and city, combining with outsiders, mao dun, German writer, etc were discussed.The fourth part is city literature research theory value and practical significance. This paper emphasized the urban literature research of urban literature study, city literature essence value of regional literature no longer as the "other" exists, but has its own unique social and aesthetic value. Through comparison of city literature for China's urbanization process, provide meaningful reference.