Study On Form Of Educated Youth Literature

As an important dimension of the history of Contemporary Chinese Literature, Educated Youth Literature has attracted tremendous attention since its birth, and as the literary carrier carrying the dream and loss of a generation, it has experienced ups and downs, its connotation is becoming much richer. Up to this day, the study of Educated Youth Literature is making a great clamor and tends to be historicized. The form of motion, theory, and creation, these three forms of Educated Youth Literature are the three backbones of the form of Educated Youth Literature and the indispensable part of Educated Youth Literature research.Due to the special reason of politics, the mainstream of the Educated Youth Literature in Educated Youth Period is the advocacy of political words, nevertheless, the creation of the non-mainstream literature which resists the monotony and whitewash of the mainstream literature creation expressed dissatisfaction with the social reality, it is the harbinger of Post-Educated Youth Period. In Post-Educated Youth Period, the Educated Youth Literature reflects the social reality in and after The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the Educated Youth to the Countryside Movement in a way of continuous and intersectional:hysterically vent and denounce the wounds the Educated Youth suffered in the distorted decade; Debate whether the ten years of youth which the Educated Youth went and worked in the countryside or mountain areas were without regrets; Begin to think about and look for the root of national culture after completely calming of soul. The creation of the Educated Youth works become opulent as the increasingly stability of the situation and get closer to the nature of literature gradually.In Educated Youth period, the movement of Educated Youth Literature shows the form character that follows the development of political events, the movement is advocated by political authority class to deconstruct view of literature and arts opposite to the literary thought of absolute authority which is regulated by the mainstream ideology; On form of literary theory, the Educated Youth Literature has a complete theory as support, mainly from the political authority’s speech, the summary of symposium and newspaper articles, etc., it embodies mainly in the theme principle of "theme first", the characterization principle of "three prominences" and "evolutionary model opera" as the guiding theory of form. Entering Post-Educated Youth period, the movement of Educated Youth Literature experienced change from relying on the power of the political right to return to normal trajectory, and change from the impassioned denounce of scar trend to calmly self-reflection trend, then to the rational cultural-root exploration trend; Theory of Educated Youth Literature during this period reflects the character that turn from depend on the mainstream ideology to seek breakthrough. It’s literary theory comes from the national conference of literature and art, literature debates and the symposiums. Under the guidance of the creation standard of "the literature and arts serve for the people and serve for the socialism" and literary and artistic principles of "Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend", the Educated Youth Literature begins to think and explore actively, closing up the truly valuable literature.The representative novels of Educated Youth period are The Journey and GuJiao Hear which represent the mainstream of Educated Youth Literature but have different emphasis; Novel wave is the representative of Non-mainstream of Educated Youth Literature, it breaks up the norms of mainstream ideology in the narrative way, it is the true voice of the society and a prelude to the scar trend of Educated Youth Literature in Post-Educated Youth period. The representative novels of Post-Educated Youth Period are the Road of Life under scar trend which still has trace of mainstream literature in Educated Youth period but has make a breakthrough on themes and narrative techniques; Novel A Storm is Coming Tonight under reflection trend which while regulated by the mainstream ideology and develops main melody of "Youth no regrets" shows gratifying progress in the focus and creation technique; Novel King of Chess under roots trend strives to carry forward the culture essence of Taoist and Zen, pays attention to the digging of national culture, and shows proficient skills on depicting characters and phrasing at the same time.Generally speaking, the Educated Youth Literature changed from attaching to politics distortedly to restored the literature candidness, and finally to prosperity in the two decades from1968to1988. The gradual regression of literariness embodies the spring up of excellent works of Educated Youth, and it indicates the arrival of the gushing period of the Educated Youth Literature’s creation.