On Flood

There are many academic researches about "Creative Society", which boasts an important statue in academic field increasingly. However, one obvious fact has been neglected-"Creative Society" has its consistent tradition for running its magazine, and during its development its literature production and operation have gradually come into being. Therefore, the organization and modification of the issues such as magazines and periods play an important role on the emergence and development of the literary ideas and social thoughts about "Creative Society". Based on the origin of this kind of literature, this paper selects Flood, the representative magazine of the middle period of Creative Society, on which there have relatively few comments, as the start point. By exploring the mutual relationship between editors and readers appearing in this magazine, the difference among different styles and themes, and the close relation with left wing literature via transformation in its first period, this paper tries to reflect the literaryly historical situation of the magazine in the middle period of " Creative Society", and explore some problems which are not discussed sufficiently and need to be solved. There are three parts in the paper.Chaper One, Flood in the culture market. In this part, from the viewpoint of "cultural market". Flood will be included into the whole literary production operational mechanism. Through the location and reaction of the readers, the technically edit means and strategy of eth editors, mutual penetration and influence of several elements, such as commercial operation strategy of the publishers, this paper tries to display the cultural product. Flood's mutual dialogue relationship between producers and the market needs, and then disclose the formation of the channel which can link up the above two (producers and customers). In the beginning, Flood came into being with the emotion as the leading factor. While it did not have a clear idea about the edit principle, market expectation and technical mean. But the unexpected reaction from the readers made the editors realize the importance of the magazine's audience-readers' market. They replied to the praise and comments fromthe readers sincerely and with justice. They served for the readers and depended on the readers. By this they constructed the smooth communication channel, in which they looked on the readers as the standard. The foundation of the publishing department not only established the economic decision-making power, at the same time it bestowed the stuff of the "Creative Society" multiple intellectual identifications. Its publishing and editing performance became more professional. In addition, editors allocated the resources of the magazine according to readers' taste, permitted and respected individual's opinions with great tolerance.Chapter Two, Two voices in Flood: In this part, concrete text will be explored as to display the feature of Flood. By categorizing and reading the text in detail, from the coexistence and conflict in the social political articles and pure literary works (here refers to novel creation), the paper discusses the potential change of the social thoughts transformation, literary creative means and aesthetic inclining in the middle period of the "Creative Society" (comparing with the previous period). With the explosion of the "May 30th Movement", "March 18th Movement", Flood displayed these social affairs by means of literary recording, such as political comments, essays and poems, which was not only the reflection of young people's strong social responsibility and political participation awareness, but made the advantage of the proletarian revolutionary orientation more obvious. The broadcasting of Marxism and Communism therefore became possible. In addition, the parallel appearance of "sentimental" works in Flood is the necessary result for the society choosing literary orientation and multiple publishing developments. The change and breakthrough of the writers' creative means and aesthetic inclination in he...