The Poetic Tendency Of Local Novels In 1930s

The Local Novels is an important branch in the history of Chinese modern literature, continue from the May Fourth Movement to the contemporary. The Chinese Local Novels began in the May Fourth Movement, form the first high-tide period in the early 20s. The Local Novels of 1930s still continued with their own unique country experience and humanistic care. It present a poetic tendency in his creation, not only shown a new appearance different in the Local Novels of 20s, but also created a new field for the fiction writings later.On the one hand, the poetic of the modern Local Novels is succeed the lyric tradition of Chinese classical literature inheritance. On the other hand, it influenced by the western modernism literature ideological trend, is the result of the collision between Chinese and western culture blend. In the turbulent era background, the local writers feel the crisis of Chinese traditional culture attacked by the western modern civilization. Under the anxiety of the urban modernization, in order to reconstruct the national culture and traditional culture, it become their inevitable choice to return to the native land and nature in their literature. The cultural power is the root cause of the poetic tendency to local novels in the 1930s. In the different styles and themes in rural narration of Fei Ming, Shen Congwen, Shi Tuo, Xiao Hong and other writers, while it contained the writers different individual life experience and aesthetic temperament and interesting. But they present the common characteristics in existence form, the exploration and creation in content and style have left the Local Novels in the 1930s has higher aesthetic value and significance.This paper mainly research in the poetic tendency of Local Novels in 1930s, is divided into five chapters to discuss:The first chapter mainly discusses the poetic tradition of the modern novels, elaborates the definition and theories of the Poetic Novels, traces the roots of the modern novels poetic tendency. It inherited the lyric tradition of Chinese classical literature, and absorbed the Literary and artistic thoughts of the western. Then analysis on the relevant theories of modern poetic novels and the historical evolution of the Local Novels writers’ poetic pursuit.The second chapter mainly discusses the generate conditions of the poetic tendency of the Local Novels in 1930s, from the external cultural background and internal subjective motivation two aspects to analysis. On the one hand, the special historical and cultural background helped to the change of the social situation and the literature aesthetic. On the other hand, the modern anxiety of the writers and the desire to return to the local experience formed their aesthetic view of the whole rural world. Add on the operating skills and personality temperament of the writers, the Local novels in this unique background conditions presented a diverse creation situation.The third chapter mainly analyzes the mind picture of the poetic tendency local novels in 1930s:it wrote the "the idyll" theme and constructed the "utopia" ideal country world, it described the collapse of the natural economy and the declining scene of the country. The narration of the misery of the country make the novels present a form of "memory elegy". On the characterization, it dig the beauty of the villagers’ soul in an idealized way, found in the poetry and beauty of the ordinary life in the collision of "local" and "poetic".The fourth chapter discusses the stylistic features of poetic tendency of Local Novels in 1930s, it performance as dilute the story caused the fragment structure, create artistic conception and mood with symbolic technique, and the subjective psychological intervention caused a lyrical style. The innovation in stylistic style is the result of writers made artistic creation consciously. It is this great artistic expression made the poetic tendency of Local Novels in the 1930s present a different poetic feature.The fifth chapter discusses the significance and the limitations of poetic tendency of the Local Novels in 1930s. The poetic tendency local novels expand the behavior field of the modern novels, enhance the connotation of the modern novels, constructed the literary form of native China in an alternative way. But the excessive pursuit of poetry also resulted the problems of excessive beautify and cover up the reality. At the same time, the poetic tendency local novels shown the great artistic expression, it not only enrich the aesthetic experience of readers, but also reflects the inner spirit of aesthetic modernity. Unfortunately, the look-ahead of art also led to its work is difficult to be understood by the ordinary readers, and it bring about the loneliness of literature ideal.In a word, the poetic tendency of Local Novels in 1930s produced by the external cultural background and subjective reason, it is a dirge that the writers sang for the declining old China under the domestic trouble and the foreign invasion. Although there exists an embarrassing of its edge position, but it is obvious to all that contributed to the development of Chinese modern novels and the contemporary literature. It became an unique scenery of the modern literary history, and had a profound impact on the contemporary literary creation. Under the infiltration, a group of writers works on the literary world, provides rich nutrition for the development of contemporary fiction. Under the joint efforts of many writers and researchers, the stream of poetic local novels flowing Slowly, import the river of the contemporary literature finally.