Ideal Of The Conflict

Modernity pursuit is China's modern mainstream to narrate, modern literature is one of the important carriers to express the narration. As the important piece of modern literature, local literature reacted the special circumstances of modern China's modernity pursuit with special angle. Meanwhile, one's own particularity determined the unique situation that itself and writer's modernity pursuit too.On the whole, China's modern local literature could be divided into two kinds: Criticizing type and Lyrical kind. Under the great background of modernity pursuit, two kinds of local literature demonstrated one's own attitude toward modernity. Outwardly, the attitude of the two was diametrically opposed, Criticizing type pursued modernity actively, and Lyrical kind had the position of anti-modernity. Were the actual conditions so simple? Through the concrete investigation to the two kinds of local literature, we can find there's a predicament sense difficult to break away from while expressing one's own attitude toward modernity. This kind of predicament sense is a focus that this text pays close attention to.This text divides four chapters, chapter one combs the concept of modernity, and introduces the linguistic context of China's modernity occurrence and its main characteristic briefly ; Chapter two summarizes the concrete circumstances of China's modern local literature, and explains the characteristic of two kinds of local literature represented by Lu Xun and Shen Congwen; Chapter three introduces the pursuit and the predicament of criticizing type, this kind displayed the identification with the west modernity ,but there was a predicament sense behind such distinct position; Chapter four expounds modernity pursuit and the predicament of lyrical kind, probes into the complicated intension with the hidden back of " anti- modernity ".