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Another Dimensionality Of Art Reality

Posted on:2010-10-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M M ShenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360275458826Subject:Literature and art
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In the 1980s, along with the development of Chinese political and economic situation, as well as the large influx of Western literary and artistic thoughts, Chinese contemporary literature showed an unprecedented vigor. Among them, Avant-garde novels which complied with Formalism in high key was distinguished from novels pursuing practical significance in reality, which turned out to be a unique literary phenomenon in pedigree of Chinese contemporary literary. On one hand, it has spared no effort to counteract the mode of depth significance and narrative structures. On the other hand, it has enthusiastically involved in the experiments and explorations as to the form of narrative and language skills. As a firm practitioner of pure literature, vanguards of avant-garde literature are full of doubts and resistance to objective reality from the very beginning, they even cast off the political constraints at the cost of cutting off with the real history in order to maintain independence and freedom of literature.The relationship between literature and reality is an old issue which has been the subject of debate. Objective reality is once considered as a standard for the old aesthetic principles to judge the reach of literary narrative truthfulness, which in the view of pioneers of avant-garde literature, has remained very little practical effect. All sorts of hypocritical experiences and conventional routines have been filled in the real world, which not only suppress people's imagination, but also misled people in observation and thinking of "real" freedom. The real truth exists only in the spiritual world of human being, and it should be the inner demands converting to individuals'spiritual world. The specific circumstance of things in the objective world is not so important, but the impression, feeling, emotion and memory left in the consciousness of human being are standards to judge things whether they are true or false. As an imaginative and responsible writer, it's his/her obligation not only to expose the hypocritical truth which is based on the reality, but also to represent the real truth existing in the spiritual world.Only in the surreal narrative context, Art truthfulness can be performed in the form of transcending the reality. Everything which seems impossible in reality has the legitimate right to exist in individual's spiritual world which is independent out of the objective reality. Truth, which is not a concept against falsity, has a wide range of possibilities and expressions. Pioneers of Avant-garde attach great importance to individuals, in a free native state, on an objective sense of the process, as well as the expression of truth. The sense of individual life, free from the constraints of the objective world, putting aside the common understanding from daily life, is the free encountering and embrace between people's consciousness and the real world. Depending on individual's sense and feeling, the reality of Art is thereby an open concept full of possibilities.In addition, the language of Avant-garde literature is also a key part of Art truthfulness. Pioneers abandon the tradition of regarding language as writing tools and carriers of awareness while promote the status of language itself. They even held the thought that language is equal to literature itself. It's not language who performs the reality, but the process of language put Art authenticity into true. Pioneers try hard to explore the uncertainty, ambiguity and occasionally, the potentiality to stimulate the internal language, which, as a result, display a wide range of possibilities of language expression. They are convinced that self-sufficient language can create a metaphysical true world through fiction. In a word, vanguard's view of Art truthfulness subverts the traditional story-centered novels and put a new vitality to Art reality.
Keywords/Search Tags:Avant-garde novel, literature and reality, true feeling, sense of realistic narration
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