A Study Of Chinease Enlightenment Literature In The 20th Century

Chinease Enlightenment Literature in the 20th Century has been ataching importance to the search for the significance and ideological values. However, either the writers or the critics, as far aswe know, ignore its aesthetic value. The production principle and research reality ofphilosophical literary creation alienate from literary fundamentals and make literaturea set of concepts or abstract notions.The first chapter explore the sources of the afore-said evolution and describe its three stages of development: stage of politico-moral criticism, of spiritual-cultural retrospection, and of post-enlightenment. In reality, what we try to present are clues of distinction or emphasis because those three stages are not clearly demarcated in such short a period in the New Era.Chapters 2 focus on the study of the thematic images derived from the literary works of this era, which relates internally with the enlightenment discoursThe last chapter of this dissertation atempts to deal formally with the enlightenment literature, i.e. observing its evolution through the internal elements of narration, structure and language in order to provide a reflection for the contemporary literary production.