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On The "Post-80s" Literature's Unique Life Experience

Posted on:2011-06-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L LuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360302497173Subject:Literary aesthetics
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The "post-80s" literature is controversial for a long time. However, it is a most important cultural phenomenon in the 21st century, which has been formed for about ten years. Today, literature always is coldly treated, while "post-80s" literature is the most remarkable cultural phenomenon. People are wondering why the "post-80s" literature could get so much concern, why those are so popular. The current research focused on the following aspects:analysis of "post-80s"literature's naming theory, classify them into "idol literature" and "skilled literature" then separately analyze, generally summed them up as "literature written only for youth" and sharply criticize its serious penetration into the literature market. Only a few articles, based on close reading of "post-80s" literary texts, fairly criticize their contents. Through extensively reading literary texts and based on the existing research results, this paper makes a conclusion:it is the writing skill on unique life experience instead of the successfully operation of "New Concept of Essay Contest" and the cooperation of magazine, publishers, book-sellers and writers of "Buds" that makes "post-80s" literature so popular.Experience is a process, in which the individual deeply explore the insight meaning to life, and consider the meaning of life. Experience is a process beyond the real world into the physical time by aesthetic intuition. Life experience is essential element in the growing process of individual life. Life experience is the emotional states and refinement of thinking to life and death and a series of experiences. Life experience is the strengthen awareness of life and emotion sublimation gained by actively experience life. While a unique aesthetic mental process is just life experience presented in the literature. "Post-80s" writers suffer great changes in existing environment, they become sensitive to individual life experience and are fragile, and so "post-80" literature will be added to "post-80s" writers'unique life experiences, including love, wandering and anxiety.Love exists in almost all "post-80s" literatures. Limited by their life experience, writers often start from their own emotions. During the time of "Delete charm", people are under enormous pressure and the true love is extremely scarce, however, "post-80" writers wrote lots of love myth to comfort people. Love stories of "post-80s" literature present two extremes, one is the purely platonic love and love is the only goal in their life. The other extreme is the worship for physical and sexual desire and seek the true love by indulgence of sex love. Love stories reflect not only in heterosexual, but in the same sex. But the disappointed points are that their love stories lack characters and criticism, what is worse, their love sense even back, all the love stories come to end with female's completely lost.Wandering is the essence of modern living. In fact, our life is wanderers' life. Homeless life written by "post-80s"weiters present not only in body's drifting, but in the spirit's wandering. This kind of wandering mainly reflects in three aspects:education system, cultural system and the urban-rural system. Because of spirit's splitting and value's transformation, "post-80s"literature has been fiercely criticized by the mainstream literary world. "post-80s"literature is full of literary criticism to education system, the school becomes the authoritarian prison, and vigor and vitality of all life are disciplined and punished. Teachers are the presentation of discipline instead of teachers to spread knowledge. Higher education is also been criticize. Their criticism may sometimes seem extreme, but it gives us another angle to deeply think our education system. They demonstrated new problems emerged in the process of urbanization:large numbers of people rush into cities, while those people can not be accepted by urban civilization, at the same time, they no longer are recognized by the country civilization they are coming from. Lack of personality and belonging will eventually allow them to revenge the society.Anxiety has been considered to be a typical of modern mood. "post-80s" writers start to bear material anxiety when they not fully enter the social society; the survival of great pressure and material worship in modern society aggravate material anxiety presented in literature. Status anxiety, existed in literature, is the result of power struggle in culture field and is a profound anxiety, which is also a king of anxiety writers can not escape. As best-selling books writers, they continue to take write as jobs and life belonging. Death anxiety has always been human's life experiences and death is inherent anxiety in human life. There are many delicate aesthetic writing about death, which reflects the expression of nostalgia for the good youth and memory. This kind of writing is, in fact, a kind of catharsis to death anxiety.The "post-80s"literature's unique writing on life experience is inseparable from the back of the Literature views. The first view is from the creation view. Works are better than writers, whether their works are to be accepted by market is the key element to attributed authors to "post-80s" literature. In order to be accepted, writers painstakingly built their own images, to shape the image of idol and present themselves at any time with the best images to the camera. They are familiar to all media and make their life adapted to media. The second view is from their creative ideas. Entertainment becomes the mainstream ideology in the times. "post-80s"literaure is not metaphysical thinking literature, entertaining readers and be easily accepted by them is the purpose of their writing. The third view is from the way of creation that is network creation. The Internet not only changed the carrier of literature and spreading of literature, but also alienates the writers thinking. Age of information technology facilitates the operation, which quicken "post-80s" writers' creation speed and assembled imitation become popular. Under the influence of Network reading methods, literature become fragmentary, a kind of immediately read like fast food; literature language is strongly shaped by network language. Under those three views, "post-80s"writers start their unique writing life experience.
Keywords/Search Tags:The "post-80s" literature, Unique Life Experience, Love, Wandering, Anxiety
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