Mu Shiying Research From The Perspective Of "Revolution" And "Modern"

In the 1930 s,Shanghai,in the shadow of the failure of the Great Revolution and the urban consumption boom,gave birth to the dual vanguard of "revolution" and "modern".Mu Shiying,who came to the literary world for the first time at this time,became the imitator of this complex phenomenon.With his left hand holding up the early morning Pro,and his right hand flowing with the sonata of the new sense,his "north and South" style of writing aroused controversy in the literary world with strong contradiction.For a long time,in the antagonistic vision of "revolution" and "modern",Mu Shiying’s works have been divided into leftist revolutionary writing in the early stage and new sense urban description in the later stage,and his image has been fixed as revolutionary traitor or resistance of "leftist" revolutionary strong discourse.In essence,bipolarization interpretation will only solidify binary opposition thinking.The game between the two avant-garde discourses runs through mu Shiying’s artistic creation and political stance.Based on this,this paper attempts to refocus on the interaction of "revolution" and "modern" discourse in Mu Shiying’s works,focusing on the development process from mutual derivation to struggle and its causes,and probing the fission and renewal of the modern subject represented by Mu Shiying under the vanguard trend of thought in the 1930 s from an integrated perspective.The thesis is divided into three parts: introduction,text and conclusion.The introduction firstly sorts out the research status of Mu Shiying’s creation,determines the problem base point of this paper based on the previous single-dimension or antagonistic interpretation of "revolution" and "modern",and points out the important significance of the interaction of the two avant-garde discourses to mu Shiying’s research.Secondly,it makes clear the polysemy of the concept of "revolution" in the modern historical field due to the subject,way and attitude.The author tries to carry out the investigation from various angles such as class,nation and writer’s personal experience.Finally,the research method and innovation of the paper are illustrated in combination with the research purpose.Chapter one: Focusing on the background of "revolution" and "modern",two vanguard discourses reshaping the Shanghai literary circle in the late 1920 s,this chapter examines mu Shiying’s cognition and embedding process of revolution in the periphery of the dissemination of revolutionary modernization.The revolutionary imagination divorced from the revolutionary political reality is the synthesis of many experiences.In the gap between individual experience and revolutionary discourse,Mu Shiying’s revolutionary imagination is shown as a revolutionary individual with individual heroism emotion,and his revolutionary narrative is shown as the tension between grand theme and individual perspective.The excessive sensory factors in Mu Shi-ying’s novels lead to the contradiction with revolutionary ideology.Chapter two: from the perspective of modern people’s critical consciousness of modern cities,we observe the continuity and fragility of the revolutionary will in Mu Shiying’s urban writing.The modern life style and the artistic concept of avoiding ideological interference made Mu Shiying walk towards the left wing revolution.The city amplifies the radical emotion belonging to modern people.Although the revolutionary critical consciousness is generated,it is fundamentally derived from the existential anxiety of modernism.Therefore,the revolutionaries who move from the city to the country inevitably fall into the situation of pessimism and nothingness.However,the weak historical sense of modernism makes Mu Shiying’s urban writing appear as "fragmentary" and "sensory",and the revolutionary elements become a fragmentary corner of the urban landscape,showing a gap with the social analysis and historical holistic view required by the revolutionary discourse.Chapter three: Based on Mu Shiying’s attitude of following and gradually dissociating the revolutionary discourse of the left-wing class in his early creation,this chapter tries to reveal Mu Shiying’s cultural practice of seeking to re integrate with another form of national revolutionary discourse in the context of war in the middle and late 1930 s.After joining the Kuomintang’s Cultural Camp politically,Mu Shiying tried to balance artistic subjectivity and political instrumentality,showing the dependence of "modern" cultural practice on "revolutionary" discourse in the special political context.The shaping of national heroes in the novel and the construction of artistic "authenticity" in theory are Mu Shiying’s two cultural practices to defend the revolutionary form of nationalism,but both are difficult to get rid of the background of "modern",showing the tragic consciousness of the strong conflict between "fatalism" and "heroism".In the contradiction between "individual" and "collective",it finally leads to the situation of subject imbalance and confession consciousness.Chapter four: expand the vision to more modern writers who need to realize self-transformation in the conflict between "revolution" and "modern",and understand the contemporary significance of mu Shiying’s works reinterpretation from the vertical perspective of literary history.In the three-dimensional conflict of "class","nation" and "modern",mu Shiying’s comet-like falling life track has a tragic color of "historical intermediate".In the 1980 s,bid farewell to "revolution" and became the resonance of The Times.In the impact of western modernism,"modern" regained the dominant power of discourse,and Mu Shiying’s creation was simplified as "depoliticized" modern code.The horizontal survey of historical dimension is helpful to better understand the literary history significance of Mu Shiying’s creation.The conclusion part summarizes the research context of this paper,integrates the overall interactive trend of the two vanguard discourses of "revolution" and "modern" in Mu Shiying’s novels,experiences the rich and painful emotions derived from mu shiying’s turbulent modernity subject in the historical context,and highlights the uniqueness of Mu Shiying’s creation.