Exploration And Practice Of "Popularization Of Literature And Art" In "Mass Life" Weekly

Mass life weekly is a comprehensive current affairs magazine with anti-Japanese and national salvation as its main content edited by famous journalist and publisher Mr.Zou Taofen.It advocates standing in the position of the masses,writing the daily life of the masses in popular language,paying attention to the survival of the nation,advocating the patriotic movement to save the nation,paying attention to the working masses at the lower level,and expressing their joys and sorrows truthfully.The combination of literature and art with the general public,giving full play to the function of literature and art,makes literature and art serve the general public.In the 1930s,with the vigorous development of literary and artistic popularization movement,the relationship between literature and the masses has become a hot topic of discussion.Many concepts and theories of popular literature have been put forward,but they have fallen into the situation of "arguing on paper" and have not been put into practice.The Popular Life not only answers the question of the relationship between literature and the masses,but also carries out its literary and artistic propositions in practice,so as to truly reach the masses.This paper attempts to show its literary and artistic views and highlight its characteristics through different manifestation tendencies in the movement of "literary and artistic popularization"in the two periods before and after The Mass Life.In the context of history,the author observes the special and contribution of Mass Life in the process of the popularization of literature and art.The author divides this article into four chapters.The first chapter discusses the relevant information of the magazine,including the development process,the idea of running the magazine,and the column setting,focusing on the literary and artistic ideas it presents.Chapter 2 explores the radical style of the first 16 issues of "Popular Life" on the issue of "Popularization of Literature and Art",compares it with the two literary journals of "Popular Literature and Art" and "Beidou",and analyses its uniqueness in exploring the movement of"Popularization of Literature and Art".Chapter three explores the Marxist literary tendency on the issue of"popularization of literature and art" in the last 30 issues of "Mass Life",and compares it with"Literature Monthly"to analyze the realistic literary creation activities of exiled writers.Chapter Four analyses the progress and loss of Popular Life in the exploration of "Popularization of Literature and Art",and explores its contributions and shortcomings.