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Historical Disenchantment And Cultural Reflection

Posted on:2011-10-13Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y F LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360305961844Subject:Literature and art
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With the consumerist culture being on the rise and global communication, the value form of culture and literature which is based on the authority genealogy begin to deconstruction and modification because of the decline and fall of aesthetic modernism Since 1970s. From the cultural point of view, the main changes show such as the failure of elite and the loss of legitimacy of elite culture, etc. The main cause which formed this cultural pattern is the disenchantment of consumerist culture. The disenchantment of consumerist culture deconstruct the depth of modern culture and dispel the power of discourse on modernity with its new pattern such daily, secularization, stereotypical, consumerist, popularization, molten, fragmentation and plural culture value form and reconstruct the new ideographic strategies and discourse paradigm according to popular culture production and consumption logic. From the literary point of view, the main changes show such as the dispersion and depreciate of symbol power,the deconstruction of literary deep structure, the desire and secular and consumption of the aesthetic spirit and so on which cause the literature from the center of the field representation to the edge eventually.The article which is based on the theory perspective of consumerist culture reflects on critical theory of value for 1990's literature in China and the main theory viewpoint is "history disenchantment". The article agree the deconstruction of the modern culture and the deep structure of literature with the effect of the consumerist culture.At the same time, the article reflect on the transcendence of paradoxical logic and aesthetic significance of literature in the ideological discourse of consumer culture according to the cultural analysis on the 1990's fictions. The article is composed of four parts:the first is the introduction which summarize the theory of consciousness, object and content of the article; The second is the theoretical perspective which analysis the cultural logic of the western consumer culture and the paradigm's transform of literary discourse, the decline of the aestheticism and the rise of pan-aesthetic culture and the termination of literary.At the same time, the part analyze the reason which cause the consumer culture arising in the 1990s and the value transform of the cultural field. The third is the fiction's analysis which analyze the poetry features of the personal writing and the reason on the arising of the personal writing, the cultural value on secularism narration about the fiction of Wang Shuo, the "disenchantment" written of the new realistic fiction, the narrative transformation and cultural reasons of pioneer writers in the 1990s, the value of narrative paradox of younger generation, the city fiction under the influence of consumer culture and so on. The conclusion of the article analyze several issues that are not discussed in the article, such as the relationship between the female literature in 1990s and the ideology of cultural consumerism, the cultural association between the body narrative and the cultural politics,the video narration and the aesthetic narration of the fiction in 1990s, etc.
Keywords/Search Tags:disenchantment, culture, consumerism, 1990s, fiction
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