A Study On Reportage Of The Literary Position

“The Literary Position” is the salient magazine for the reportage during the War of Resistance against Japan.The paper selects the reportorial literature issued in “The Literary Position” as the research object,explores and reviews its thoughts,content,arts,achievements and alike.In this way,the paper hopes to have bigger picture of the reportage in the War of Resistance against Japan,and provide more material for studies on Chinese reportorial literature.The paper is constituted by “Introduction”,“Chapter 1”,“Chapter 2”,“Chapter 3” and “Conclusion”.The introduction briefs over the reportage prosperity during the war and its value as the research object.At the same time,the introduction combs through the current conditions of “The Literary Position” and the reportorial literature to show more of the research worth.Chapter 1 at first defines the scope of the reportage in “The Literary Position” and discusses the literature like report,sketch,profile and feature.Then the mind and material contained in the reportage are illustrated,and the reportage,featuring disclose and satire,ranges from war documentary,counter-Japan hero,brutal Japanese army,miserable people,social condition to war news.The wide topic in “The Literary Position” speaks volume of the panoramic perspective of the reportage on the society suffering from the war,and blazes new trials for reportorial works.Chapter 2 expounds on the artistic character of all report literary works on “The Literary Position”.Mao Dun,the chief editor of “The Literary Position”,emphasized that the reportage should go various and literary,which allowed the magazine to be dictated by more topics and stronger artistry.More topics are manifested by literature advocate on disclosure,satire and women,while the stronger artistry is demonstrated by delicate design,novel-like expression and fine details.The high value of “The Literary Position” is not only attributed to the reportorial literature itself,but also the reportorial philosophy of Mao Dun as well as other qualified writers in areas governed by the Nationalist Party.Chapter 3 explains the achievements and worth of “The Literary Position” by means of creation style and artistic characters.With regard to the history,the magazine keeps true to the war and promotes to fight against enemies,which contributes a lot to the War of Resistance against Japan.In the sense of literature,the magazine builds up a big stage for reportorial writers.Moreover,the reportage gains increasingly higher position thanks to the promotion and theories of Mao Dun,and works on “The Literary Position”.As such,the achievements that “The Literary Position” has made generate great implications to the counter-Japanese literature.The paper takes as the study objects the comprehensive magazine “The Literary Position”,and the widely-used writing “reportage”.Methods like history study,text analysis are employed in the paper to dive into the reportorial style during Counter-Japanese War.Meanwhile,the paper tries to illustrate how the reportage,by taking advantage of its own merits,records the war,develops the literature,and finally promotes the war resistance through “The Literary Position”.The paper is with appendix “Reportages List of ‘The Literary Position’ to provide further information for readers and researchers.