Exploration Fox Trot

The new sensation school, which is all the rage in the upper class of society and middle class in Shanghai in the 1930s,is the most integrated modernism school in Chinese modern history of literature. Relying on the unique life experience, emotion experience, body sense of touch and cultural sensation, it develops many elements of the new literature, unfolds the decadent consciousness which is caused by strange social environment, creates the high esthetic tensity and intense defamiliarization, raises a tidal current in literary arena.The dispirited consciousness in the theory of Calinescu——five faces of modernity is the primary exploration position of the new sensation school. The common characteristic of decadent is the abandonment of the traditional value goal, ideology, thought idea in the society, class and association.The early time of 20th century in Shanghai, follows the imperialism colonizing, China and the West combine and complement one another in the city. Commodity exchange and market operation become the new rules of economic domain. They have raised the general resident's expense culture. Under the influences of time background, western thought and literature rule, the new sensation school appears. It carries on the exploration,taking the breach by the dispirited consciousness.The modern civilization appears forcefully and quickly, changes society's revolution mechanism and individual life style in people's blank and delay. The people move toward own opposite, create the comprehensive distortion and the disassimilation of the relations about the humanity, society and nature. The new sensation school unfolds the intense criticism of spiritual degeneration in city through the discriptions of the unhealthy love and marriage and lonely people's hovering and helplessness.The writers of the new sensation school have contradictory attitudes about modern city. For this reason,they struggle painfully. On the one hand,they feel that the abnormal prosperity has brought the powerful spiritual pressure. On the other hand,they appreciate the comfortable and free city life.The new sensation school's subject demonstration achieves the remarkable results because they use the appropriate artistic technique. The new reality which is constitutes by the intuition and sense organ, exquisite psycho-analysis, magnificent and complex language become their significant contributions in artistic skill. The writers respect subjective feeling,they like to put the subjective sense and impression into the object which they want to demonstrate.So,a kind of new reality which is different from the traditional literature is made. It contains the capture and description of the ray and color. Montage is also used in the novel. The writers attempt the stream of consciousness, shape double personality, excavate contradictory psychology. The absorption of pidgin language,the creation of feeling language,and the use of rhetorical devices such as analogy, personification and dielectric have enriched the novel language indication.The display of the dispirited subject and the excavation of the dispirited artistic skill promote the new sensation school to practice the creation idea of modernity bravely. They set up a magnificent milestone. Their work has had the profound influence to descendant's literature. Meanwhile,the avoidless limitations in their literary creation let the new sensation school be a flash in the pan after amazing the world with a single brilliant feat. However, the new sensation school's persistent pursuit in dispirited idea and the rich output which builts on the basis of hard work have left behind the precious inheritance for Chinese contemporary literature.