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Hu Feng Revolutionary Mentality Study

Posted on:2007-06-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W YeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360185975919Subject:Chinese Language and Literature
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Ideological and political disputes, as well as personal conflicts, were incessantly inflicting hovering thick clouds of miseries and damages on the modern Chinese revolutionary literary world. Some of the leading figures of this world were impeached and purged as the counterrevolutionaries, shortly after the revolution to which they had whole-heartedly dedicated finally gained its success in 1949. The life of Hu Feng, among the others, exemplifies this woeful, ironic pattern of the history of modern Chinese literature.Revolution, as an all-embracing, totalitarian ideology in modern China, created a way of life, and also a whole set of values. Amid the context of ever-growing revolutionization characterizing modern Chinese history, revolution itself was internalized into a psychological character of revolutionary litterateurs. As a result, the process of building mentality of revolution exerts massive influences on their literary theories and activities. Hu Feng follows this general rule in this respect. However, Hu exhibits distinctive and highly personalized features which are peculiar to his own version of mentality of revolution, due to his familial inheritances and the specific socio-cultural backgrounds in his early life. " The spirit of objective combativeness " and " the consciousness of Passion" , as two critical clues, serves to explain the internal dynamics of his mentality of revolution.The thesis is centered on concept of mentality of revolution. It analyzes the forming process of Hu Feng's mentality of revolution from a start point of an exploration of his childhood and youth-hood. Then it deals with Hu Feng's literary theories, through analyzing in sequence his...
Keywords/Search Tags:mentality of revolution, spirit of objective combativeness, consciousness of Passion
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