On The Modernity Of Urban Literature In 1990s

In the 1990s,in Chinese literature there sprouted profuse aesthetic literary texts, which reflected urban dwellers' state of living and mind. These texts appeared with modern cultural and aesthetic features. The creative agent of urban literature, living the improving urban atmosphere, wrote their particular modern experience and imagination.However, the contemporary literary critics have attached insufficient attention to the modernity of urban literature. Moreover, the theoretical illustration and summary of experience have not been deepened either. Tough, the researchers have contributed a lot in explicating the relation between urban literature and social development, the on to logical features, mode of discourse and spiritual orientation, yet generally the study of urban literature is confined too much on the illustration of personal experience, characterized by randomness and micro-analysis without a systematic and entire grasp and illustration.Exploration of the modernity in urban literature in 1990s cannot be separated from the cultural context and historical background of globalization as a tendency in china. It also cannot be separated from the perception, understanding and employment of modern resource under such a historical circumstances. It should be considered that modernity is really very difficult to grasp. But, the4 most outstanding periodic features are just the features o modernity. They can be summarized into the following categories.1.Modernity and urban literary study. Modernity as a functional and theoretic conception is a grasp and summary of the shift of individuals and social forms from pre-modernism to postmodernism. The Chinese problems of modernity are bom together with the concept of modern china.It stands for the Chinese perception of realistic existence and the pursuit ofhuman rights of living, freedom and happiness. Urban Literature in 1990s as a collective structure o aesthetic culture, the core of the structure should be: It not only reflects the creation o reciprocal experience of modern cultural space and modern man, but also reflects the ideology and aesthetics exemplified by consciousness of living and modes of living. It should also by means of relational thinking examine the modernity of urban literature in the multi-relations between agent and society, society and texts, texts and agents. All these should be taken as the departure point of study.2.Subject: The narrators' modernity experience. The agent of city literature began to pursue the interests instantly and voluntarily in the 1990s. The creation idea taking real favorable value as leading factor displays As the following several points in the text: (1), regard" wanting" as motive power, with irrational to narration modernity of tactics is it make individualized language is it teach beginners words and political words to overflow to write. (2), confront with each other or refuse the social system and constraint to the human nature of material progress with natural rationality of human nature of people. (3), display individual morals have priority, private modernity morals ethics that take of ethics.3. City: Imagine living space. City is not the object of the writing of the city literature in the 1990s, but also the living space where the subject and personage's marriage partner shine the image formed through the aesthetic conceptions. This is shown as: (1), city image of materialization, it form have and life and spiritual reality take place related instantly with protagonist with material of symbol. Lie in possibility not that meaning of them produce at first these material of simultaneity of the symbioses with and putting, secondly the network structure formed of this kind of materialization symbol has productive the strong one. (2), imagine city image. It is all narration function, metaphor of space that these embodies in and symbolize functionally. Or in homogeneity or heterogeneous form and putting on the city space, or form and reply the aesthetic space adjusted. These aspects form the meaning of th...