On The Theoretical Exploration Of "Prose Sketchbook" During The Seventeen Years

During the Seventeen Years(1949-1966),with the establishment of New China,great changes in politics and society have profoundly affected the trend of literature.In a new era of changing context,prose needs to carry out the expectation of the new regime's eagerness to establish "a new people's literature and art".On the other hand,it faces the dilemma of leading development in fiction,drama,and poetry.In the persistent anxiety and perplexity,the prose discourse constantly explores its own speech tactics,from which emerges the theoretical exploration of the "Prose Sketchbook",trying to positively reflect the times and obtain the independence and innovation of the prose style."Prose Sketchbook" contains abundant historical existence.Its prose concept such as form and mood was responded to in "Prose Ramblings" of the 1970s,and the phenomenon of solidification and patterning in the Seventeen Years's prose creation has encountered criticism in "New Age" in the background of bringing order out of chaos,which triggered a reargument in the mid-1980s about the "Form Loose but Idea Concentrative".Throughout the generation process of the "Prose Sketchbook" and its value pursuit,it makes the Seventeen Years's essay creation to achieve some kind of balance between meaning writing and artistic aesthetic and realize harmony between art and politics,thus find the way for prose to intervene in the imagination of the modern nation-state in new China,and set up a new field of prose discourse and paradigm.This theoretical discussion generated a lot of theoretical resources,such as "Form Loose but Idea Concentrative","Poetic Prose",etc.,that should be seen as an important part in contemporary prose theory system,its value should be rational revaluation.