Urban Writing In The Street Novels Of The 1980s

Emerging in the early 1980 s of the 20 th century,the street novel frequently produced excellent works and made remarkable achievements in the whole 1980 s.With its unique cultural implication and aesthetic style,it formed a powerful creative trend.In this period,the creation of street novels broke through the bondage that required literature to serve politics for a long time,broke out of the barriers of "grand narration" of literature,and started from the street space to write about the customs and people,narrated the life style of ordinary people,showed great attention to the street culture and secular life,and showed a kind of secular and localized aesthetic taste.It has important research value.From the perspective of city writing,this paper defines the overall city image presented in the 1980 s street novels from the three dimensions of city people,city landscape and city culture.In addition to the introduction and conclusion,the paper contains four chapters.The introduction section mainly defines the concept of "market" and "market novel".An overview of the works of writers involved in the creation of street novels in the 1980s;Clarify the background of the generation of street novels;Explain why we choose the market novels of 1980 s as the research object;Clarify the current research status of market novels in academia and the focus of this topic.The first chapter of the text discusses the ideological resources of the market novel creation in the 1980 s from three aspects: the surge of the trend of cultural root searching,the discovery of individuals,and the experience of citizen novel creation.The second chapter discusses the presentation of urban landscape in the city novels.The city landscape in the city novels is divided into three categories: commercial trade,daily life,leisure and entertainment.Among them,the commercial landscape through the disclosure of commercial activities for profit purpose,the display of honesty,loyalty,human consideration of business mode and trade behavior of related trade knowledge interspersed constitute the aesthetic characteristics of elegance and common sharing;The presentation of life landscape focuses on the excavation of ordinary life objects(residence,diet,festivals)behind the culture.The presentation of entertainment landscape is intended to highlight the leisure of citizens under the traditional entertainment and leisure field.The third chapter focuses on the citizen image building in the street novels.This chapter divides the civic figures in the market space into three categories,namely,the small people in the market,the female group and the down-and-out banner.Limited by living environment,financial status and cultural and educational level,the small people in the city have formed a unique character of being closed and conservative,sophisticated and smooth,happy to know one’s destiny,alienated from politics and adapted to The Times.Under the cultivation of the traditional family ethics based on the concept of loyalty and filial piety,chastity and the consciousness of superiority and inferiority,women have the cultural psychology of consideration and single-mindedness,respect and filial piety,love and tolerance.The unique political history and culture of Manchu has created the cultural character of the banner people who attach importance to etiquette,enjoy pleasure,attach importance to the art of life,and love respectability and ostentatious displays.The fourth chapter combs and defines the city culture presented in the city novels and analyzes the writer’s attitude towards this culture.The city novels highlight the city culture based on the traditional culture form,focusing on the material folk culture,when presenting this culture,writers often hold a kind of appreciation and reflection interwoven contradictory attitude.The fifth chapter analyzes the motive of market novel creation.Specifically,it includes three aspects: the novel creation view reversed by The Times,the artistic consciousness of "seeking change" and the personal life experience in the street.The three constitute the premise,the inner power and the necessary condition of the creation of the street novel respectively.