On Modernity Of The Shanghai-School Fiction

Content: This thesis presents concisely the social and cultural background of the existence of Shanghai-School Fiction and probes into the causes of modernity characteristics, which Shanghai-school Fiction takes on under this background. It expounds the perceptual narrative that Shanghai-school Fiction employs in the existence dilemma of value imbalance and morality disorder and the decadent state of life manifested. This thesis also analyzes the efforts that Shanghai-school Fiction makes for seeking the existence consolation: on one hand, this school goes deep down into daily life for pursuing stable life, demonstrating modem people's identifications with the secular world; on the other hand, through imaginary transcendence, it probe into the essence of human nature, examining and pondering over the existence conditions of reality.