Study On The Image Of Dancing Girl In Novels Of Sensation School

In the late 1920s and early 1930s in China,the modern literary world emerged the first Modernist Novelistic School,that is the New Feeling School,which developed from the modern civilized city of Shanghai.Since its opening in 1843,Shanghai has become a space for receiving a complete transplant of western political systems,industrial civilization and lifestyle,resulted in a series of changes was taken place in there and Shanghai turned into a golden period of rapid development in the 20th and 30th centuries.As a product derived from Shanghai's modern economic development,the dance-hostess have been collected and created in text by different ideological writers with different attitudes at that time.Among them,writers of New Feeling School made use of their urban literature's character and consciousness of modern pursuit to make the image of the dance-hostess has the most charm of the era and the modern connotation of the city.As a unique entertainment venue for consumption of modern urban goods,the ballroom brought together and embodied all temperaments of modern cities.And dance-hostess,as the medium for the ballroom to communicate with the outside world,is the most direct expression object of this modern urban temperament.Therefore,the author attempts to carry out a study on the image of the dance-hostess in the novels of New Feeling School through textual combing,thereby further exploring the modern connotation of the dance-hostess.First of all,the author clarifies the background of the dance-hostess' s image in the novels of New Feeling School.The emergence of New Feeling School is neither a vacuum nor a natural breeding of traditional culture,but is stimulated by Western modernism.There is close relation among Shanghai,the ballroom,and the dance-hostess,and their development provided a reasonable social space for the image construction of the dance-hostess in the novels of New Feeling School,and writers of New Feeling School also fully used this social and time resource.They completed the representation of the dance-hostess's image in texts through their actual consumption,so the image of the dance-hostess in their writings were infected with the writer's personal temperament unavoidably.Then through the analysis of the time and space elements on the image construction of dance-hostess,the author makes clear the special floating position of the spatial field in the city that formed by its prominent features in light and shadow,color,and music;while in the time field,the temporality,disorder,and recurrence of time experience of dance-hostess showed the nihilism of the dance-hostess 's image in common.It also showed the superficiality,transitory and anonymity in the interpersonal communication between the dance-hostess and the dancer.And then the author completes the characteristic combing of materialized dance-hostess,modern dance-hostess,and dance-hostess in the image construction of the dance-hostess.Finally,the modern connotation of the image of dance-hostess is explained from the modern emotions,time experience and modern desires including sexual desire and material desire of urbanites.