On The Creation Of New Romantic Novels In The 1940s

Romanticism literary thought and realism, modernism literary thought constitute the three main current of the chinese modem literature. Romanticism literary thought was introduced into China before and after "May4Movement", has experienced its heyday in the1920s, which has emerged the Creation Society represented by guo moruo, yu dafu, and also have emerged literature societies, such as shallow lake poetry society, the crescent moon society. They hold the principle of romanticism to create, or show romanticism creation tendency, and create a large number of romanticism works. Romanticism creation in this period, appear to be more a kind of catharsis with personality cry, publicize the thought of anti-feudalism and anti-authoritarian, advocate individuality liberation, pursue science, democracy, value and dignity. Fully reflects the spirit of the time with Sturm und Drang, highlights the literary theme of "man’s awakening and liberation". Romanticism, for the first time,appear with the attitude of integrity in the history of modern Chinese literature, and come to peak. In the1930s, due to China’s specific social history language environment and the influence of international proletarian revolutionary literary trends,romantic literature presents the scene of turning and depression in this period. But theromanticism did’t disappear, but change the performance form, its works presented the beauty of the static in the aesthetic style. By the1940s, romanticism enter into retrospection period, new romantic appeared in1940s, is a new kind of continuation and development about romanticism. It concatenated emotional freedom of romanticism with the legendary story, achieve spiritual transcendence, and make romanticism, realism and modernism linked together, no longer take the form of a closed-off hermit.Xuxu is the representative writer of the new romantic. His unique creation style is with love, beauty, freedom and human nature as the theme, the text has the characteristics of the virtual and the different kinds of artistic technique of expression. In the1940s, the creation of Xuxu alienated with mainstream politics, with synchronic culture trait on the pattern of works. It haven’t describe grand historical themes positive, but focus on people’s inner demand and mental state instead, to find the ultimate end-result of life, these are different with romanticism in the May4movement, and also different with the romanticism in1930s. Has open up a new frontier of romanticism in the history of literature, accelerate the combination and interaction of romanticism, realism and modernism with each other, and quicken the pace of the combination and interaction of refined and popular literature. It also has rich significance of enlightenment and reference about the1990s and today’s literature marketization, commercialization.The formation New romantic is inseparable with the social environment of China in1940s. Under the special circumstances of the Anti-Japanese War, because of the war,The control to culture of authorities was weakened. So Xuxu and other new romantic writers have a relatively loose environment and more peace of mind for literary creation. Due to the cultural and academic accomplishment of the creation subject (Xuxu has psychology background, study in France, master in philosophy, and was trained in traditional culture and thought education) and social literature activities. Make the creation of the genret become possible. During this period the reader’s reading expectation and aesthetic requirements have also changed, years of the war separated many families. People bear the pain of separation and the threat of life, and need comfort in their heart, so show great enthusiasm and interest in reading for this kind of new literature type and theme style.For new romantic, the concern of literature is not enough, lack sufficient awareness of its significance and value in literature history, and thus lead to a series of the lack of evaluation or biased and even injustice. The emergence of new romantic, is inheritance and development about the tradition of May4th literature and1930s literature, the creation subject with open culture vision, combined with traditional Chinese culture in the performance form, create people loved literature, elite intellectuals read philosophical ideal from it, ordinary people read the legendary stories and figures from it. We can say that new romantic novels is quite excellent, especially for Xuxu’s novels in1940s, but because the constraine of the traditional Chinese culture with carry thoughts and mainstream political literature reviews, new romantic novels didn’t got critics’s approve in literature at that time, from this point,it is unreasonable about the new romantic for unfair evaluation, with the development of literature ideas and the diversity of literary criticism, we believe that literature will give a fair evaluation about new romantic.This article is divided into five chapters, the first chapter is introduction, mainly discusses the development of romanticism and the introduction in China, new romantic and Xuxu’s creation and the works research states. The second chapter mainly uses text analysis to discuss romantic novels in1940s with Xuxu’s own works who was representative writer of new romantic. The third chapter discusses the reasons for the formation of new romantic. The fourth chapter in the history of modern literature, new romantic novel for development of romanticism and the effects of three literature trend mutual fusion and the positive effect when confluence with refined and popular literature, as well its enlightenment on today’s literature marketization and commercialization. The fifth chapter is conclusion.