The Study On The Selected Story In 1980 To 1989

The Selected Stories founded in 1980 and ended in 1989,which ran through the whole 1980s.This article takes The Selected Stories as an important research object to study the development of literature in the 1980s.The Selected Stories,the national large-scale literature selection,who born in the national excellent short story awarding activity.Thanks to the literary environment in the 1980s,it became an independent literary selective periodical.The Selected Stories had gone through the whole process of prosperity and decline of short stories and novella in the new period,and has become a well-deserved literary scene in the creation of short stories in the 1980s.Thus,the study of The Selected Stories has undoubtedly become a unique text path back to the historical context of contemporary literary history and observe the overall development of literature in 1980s.My article hopes to investigate and analyze the special value of The Selected Stories in the 1980s literature based on the existing knowledge of the 1980s literature.Specifically,it is divided into the following four chapters to discuss.The first chapter discusses The Selected Stories and medium-length novels and short stories in 1980s,introducing the background and development experience of The Selected Stories.Whether Scar Literary,Root-seeking Literary,Reform Literary,Pioneer Literary or modernist fiction,these literary works with distinctive characteristics in the important literary thoughts of the 1980s are all included in the journal.The 1980s was a golden period for novel creation and literary journal.The literary works selected in The Selected Stories and the creation of writers show has a choice to decide keep or not in the journal.The Selected Stories not only brings excellent pieces of many writers together,but also removes some well-known works enable to seek more outstanding pieces,which have not attracted too much attention before.That is the double imprint that left in the modern contemporary literature history by the selected authors.It not only shows the shaping of literary periodicals on classical writers,but also reflects the changes of writers on literary periodicals and reflects the leading power of The Selected Stories in the development of short stories in the 1980s.The second chapter clarifies the editorial style and artistic characteristics of The Selected Stories.The hierarchical system of literary journals creates the characteristics of the journal itself.As a publication affiliated to the Chinese Writers Association,although The Selected Stories inherently has the authority of a national journal,However,there are many overlaps between the initial publications and the contents published by People's Literature.In order to become an independent journal rather than a "shadow journal" of People's Literature,it always adheres to the realist editing concept and to recruit excellent national short novels for national awards,which makes it gradually establish its own selection authority.With the adjustment of ideology and the change of literary environment,The Selected Stories has undergone many changes in the consideration of the selection principles of the short and novella creation in the 1980s and the strategy of running a journal.However,The Selected Stories has almost no omissions for publications with strong official ideology and group representativeness.The Selected Stories had finally chosen the works those emphasized realism and ignored the artistic aesthetic value of literature under an aura of authority.The third chapter introduces the relationship between The Selected Stories and literary awards.The Selected Stories is responsible for picking up excellent pieces from a wide selection of works nationwide,as the organizer of the national excellent short novels award,providing a rich selection of excellent articles for the awards.This chapter specifically describes the important role of The Selected Stories before and after the awards,and evaluates the changes and impacts of the awards on the publication.Furthermore,this article discusses how the evaluation method of " a combination of mass recommendation and expert group evaluation" has profoundly influenced the emotional attitude of The Selected Stories to readers' opinions.It reveals the close connection between the selection process and award activities of The Selected Stories in the 1980s.Periodical selection and evaluation activities in the 1980s were closely linked.Many selected works participated in the evaluation and won the ranking in the national excellent short and short novel award activities.The game and compromise of different aesthetic orientations among readers,editors and experts also made The Selected Stories has gone through different stages of development,from setting a benchmark for literary awards,including aesthetic diversity,and moving away from literary awards,accommodating diverse aesthetics,and escaping from literary award stage.Also this chapter highlights the consciousness of the journal's continually updating column settings.Through comparison between National Excellent Short Story Awards and the Hundred Flowers Award,at the same time to reflect on the journal's own adaptation and compromise to the awards.The fourth chapter describes the shut and start of The Selected Stories.The magnificent and declining course of the publication over the past decade has written a magnificent tragic song.After 1985,the time for awards changes,the loss of members of the editorial department and the shortage of funding for journals have made the situation of the journal worse and worse.The undertaking of national excellent short story selection activities not only brought opportunities but also ushered in challenges for the publications.In August 1989,The Selected Stories was finally suspended due to funding,personnel and other reasons.This chapter depicts the development process of the magazine that has become a self-financing magazine since the restart of The Selected Stories in1995.It also points out the fact that The Selected Stories after the unfortunate event is seriously injured.Obviously,The Selected Stories in the current literary environment seems to be overstretched regaining its former glory in the 1980s.