A Study Of Zhou Libo’s Literary Thoughts

Zhou Libo’s literary thought was gradually formed in his participation in the practice of proletarian revolutionary culture.The revolutionary realism spirit of Marxist literary theory is the main line of the development of Zhou Libo’s literary thought,which also incorporates the cultural tradition of "Huxiang" pragmatism.The paper focuses on the generation process of Zhou Libo’s literary thought.When discussing the three important historical stages of the formation of Zhou Libo’s literary thought,namely the Left League,Yan’an and New China,the paper focuses on digging its ideological foundation throughout,and exploring the vitality of Zhou Libo’s literary thought.Under the guidance of the literary thought of combining political utilitarianism with literary artistry,Zhou Libo gave consideration to the dual identities of revolutionary soldiers and people’s writers.His life history and diversity of literary thoughts are conducive to the cultural practice and artistic choice of contemporary writers.The paper is mainly divided into three parts,including introduction,main text,and conclusion.The text is divided into four chapters: The first chapter analyzes Zhou Libo’s literary thought under the guidance of revolutionary realism literary view as a revolutionary soldier,influenced by revolutionary situation and Marxist literary theory,from four aspects: the adherence of revolutionary soldiers,the literary guidance for politics,the utilitarian literary view and the exploration of revolutionary realism theory.From the standpoint of proletarian literature and art fighters,Zhou Libo regarded literature as a tool of war,advocated the literary concept of politics,promoted "national defense literature",and emphasized the urgency of writing reportage in China at that time,in order to study the revolutionary pursuit of Zhou Libo’s literary thought.The second chapter analyzes that after arriving in Yan’an,Zhou Libo reflected on his own petty bourgeoisie ideology and the "closed door improvement" during the "Little Luyi" period.After participating in the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art,Zhou Libo made clear his ideological position and changed the attitude of the enlightener under the guidance of the elitist ideology.Instead,he was in close contact with the masses of workers and peasants as an enlightenee.On the basis of reexamining the "popularity" of the leftist league period,Zhou Libo agreed with the line of "literature and art serving the workers,peasants and soldiers" proposed in his Speech at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art.He took "observation,experience,analysis and research" as his creative method,explored "popularity" from the aspects of language,form and aesthetics,and began to create "popularity" in a real sense.Zhou Libo made it clear that the fundamental direction of artistic creation is to "serve the masses of workers and peasants",affirmed that the life of the masses of workers and peasants is the only source of literary creation,and carried out creative practice under the guidance of this thought.The third chapter analyzes that after the founding of New China,Zhou Libo returned to his hometown due to the bottleneck of his creation.Influenced by the spirit of "Speech at Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art" and the creative practice of "Da Lu Art",Zhou Libo guided his literary practice with the literary thought of combining "personalization" and "folk",and constantly explored the localization of literary thought.Zhou Libo agreed with the literary thought of combining revolutionary realism and revolutionary romanticism,and was influenced by the classical literary creation thought and the "Huxiang" regional culture.He found a unique aesthetic taste and literary thought.In his writing practice,Zhou Libo deliberately weakened the "Europeanization" influence in his writing,constructed the localization characteristics of his literary thoughts in the continuous excavation of local characteristics,and then formed a personalized writing style.The fourth chapter starts from the achievements of Zhou Libo’s literary thoughts,and discusses the creative activities of the new forces under the influence of his literary thoughts in the current of the times.This is mainly reflected in Zhou Libo’s guidance to young writers’ writing on the basis of his remarkable achievements in the process of sinicization of Marxist literary theory.Through Answering Young Writers,Talking about Character Creation,Talking about Creation and so on,this paper explores the practical guiding significance of Zhou Libo’s literary thought and experience for the creation of young writers,so as to explore the creative task of writers and the direction of Marxist literary theory with Chinese characteristics in the changing times.Thus,we can truly understand the vitality of Zhou Libo’s literary thought.