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On The Chinese Literature Since The 90 " Humanism " Lost

Posted on:2006-08-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M SuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360152492724Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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With the development of globalization, Chinese socialist market economy is making great progress. While promoting prosperity in China, the reform of commodity economy has also brought spiritual crisis to Chinese people. Chinese literature has fallen into certain predicament since the 1990s. The thesis focuses its research on humanism of Chinese literature since the 1990s, combining with the historical environment of the literature in the 1990s, mainly analyzes form of expression and deep reason produced why humanism of Chinese literature loses during this specific time. This has important meanings to all sorts of phenomena such as literature crisis, sense of loss of intellectual's humane care and clearing up of mankind's ultimate value. And this is heavy responsibility that contemporary literary criticism bears too.This thesis is divided into three parts.The first part analyzes the background meaning and concept of humanism. This part puts forward the background and meaning of discussion of humanism. How to set up good relation with market economy in humanism, the intellectual's reorientation, and rebuilding the function of criticizing, are realistic meaning of this discussion of humanism. Then the thesis defines the meaning of humanism. First, the thesis investigates what is meant by humanism question, differentiating and analyzing several groups and humanism relevant concepts. Then this part expounds the fact that humanism antagonistic to common customs spirit, humanism rebuilding traditional antagonistic to western orientation in, the differences of loss and cover of humanism form triple focuses of controversy. At last the thesis confirms the basic meaning of humanism, which is divided into five levels: Life level, survive state level, asking-for-kind level, looking-for-the-truth level, asking-for-the-beauty level. Humanism in literature should be still more extensive, more abundant.The second part expounds the behavior of the loss of humanism of Chinese literature since the 1990s: Firstly, packing profiteering activities and catering to the readership's poor taste. This part investigates the frequent periodical plan and the phenomenon of the commercialized packing profiteering activities. This part also investigates the complex in great demand and Movie & TV complex and WANG Shuo phenomenon. Secondly, clearing up the loftiness and common customs. And this part analyzes its common customs spirit, clearing up the loftiness and inclination of catering to the readership's poor taste in the new realism novel. Thirdly, a large number of desires describing. Through the investigation of desire writing, body writing, the half-length body writing etc, this part analyzes the inclination to desire writing in the novel of new generation, poetry creation and new historical novel.The third part analyzes the loss of the humanism of Chinese literature has external cause which is society and politics of economic transition since the 1990s, and the deep reason still lies in intellectual oneself. The first reason is that the disappearing of intellectual subject spirit caused the loss of humanism of Chinese literature. This includes the disappearance of critic subject spirit and the disappearance of writer's subject spirit. Then the thesis summarizes the disappearance of writer's subject spirit shown as: Absence of mission consciousness, the disappearance of suffering consciousness, the disappearance of critical spirit. The second reason is that writer's personality goes for cynicism.The thesis finally proposes the thinking of rebuilding the new humanism of Chinese literature, which meets the needs of the world and faces the future.
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