The Exploration Of The Survival State Of Contemporary Literature

We are in an information age of rapid economic development. A variety of press mediashave mushroomed, therefore a reform has begun in the era of mass media. And under theaffect of modern science and technology, the mass media, such as film, television, the Internetand other electronic media, has made a rapid development. And traditional literature has met a"dead end", whose impregnable position has been deeply shaken in the minds of most people,and which is facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities. So many literary critics andmen of insight can not help expressing lament and anxiety: Does literature really end? Doesthe Image age have really come? But the fact is no doubt that the popularization,commercialization, marginalization and the image of literature has changed itself dramatically.The issue of literary journals is under an embarrassing state. Poetry, short stories, drama andother literary genres have a grim future, but only river novel becomes a sound prosperity,which made people see a glimmer of hope after some frustrations. The dissertation has not theambitions to outline contemporary literature as a whole landscape, so there is no main effortsexamining comprehensively a variety of literary styles in the present state of the development,but to explore actively the new face of Contemporary Literature in the era of mass media.Is literature really no way to go? Movies and traditional literature develop interactivelyaltogether, effect each other and win hand in hand. Let us see the prospects and hope for thedevelopment of Chinese literature. Though, literature suffers a lot as a human beings’spiritual home,"The road ahead will be long" we still go forward to explore in the longprocess of human history. Facts have shown that the traditional literature does not dim withthe developing time, but survives unremittingly in a variety of survival way, and provides awealth of spiritual nourishment for people.