Research On Guo Moruo And Modern Spirit Of Romanticism

At the beginning of the 20th century,China experienced great changes.The political,economic and cultural disasters aroused the national passion of a group of young intellectuals.Under the impact of western modern civilization and the criticism of Chinese traditional culture,they continue to initiate reforms in the field of ideology and culture.As the creator of Chinese new poetry,Guo Moruo’s literary and art thought plays an important role in Chinese literary and art circles,but its drastic transformation makes it extremely difficult to grasp his internal stability theory.As a recognized "founder of Romanticism" in China,his ambiguous attitude towards Romanticism has been a hot topic of academic research.However,most studies focus on the change of his superficial attitude,and fail to take Romanticism as the reference yardstick in his specific literary practice,so as to grasp the coherence of his thought.Therefore,it is of great benefit to the development of Chinese literary theory and the enrichment of Chinese spiritual civilization to re-evaluate the stable core of Guo Moruo’s literary thought and the historical significance of Romanticism in the dialogue between ancient and modern times and the collision between China and the West by clearing away the fog of Guo Moruo’s superficial attitude towards Romanticism and looking into his consistent spiritual resonance with Romanticism in practice.The thesis is divided into five chapters,the main contents are as follows:The first chapter combs the course of Romanticism in modern China.The dividing line between modern and modern China is "May Fourth Movement".Romanticism presents two different forms of expression in these two stages:the first is the struggle for "individual freedom" in modern China.China’s advanced intellectuals realized that the key to modernization reform lies in the awakening of national self-subject consciousness.They tried to restore the individuality of the people with the help of the Western literary trend including Romanticism,but eventually went to the carnival of individualism due to the lack of rationality.The second is the push for "national independence" in modern China.After the May 4th Movement,the literature and art theory of Soviet proletarian revolution was introduced into China,and a collective "turn" to Romanticism occurred in Chinese literature and art circles.At the turn of 1920s and 1930s,the "revolutionary Romanticism" put forward by the Soviet Union made Romanticism continue to develop in China with a new look of interweaving with revolution.However,these two representations did not make Romanticism gain a place in the mainstream literary and artistic thought circle of China,but eventually became the object of criticism and fell down.The second chapter explores the reason why Romanticism failed twice in ideographic representation and was still in an awkward situation in China:the "revolutionary" core of modern spirit of Romanticism originated from German Romanticism.The modern spirit of Romanticism admits that there are always defects in life,and it is necessary to keep the denial of the present and constantly rebel to the perfection of life.And the process of approaching the ideal world through the rebellion against the status quo is also the process of life itself approaching perfection.In modern China,from individual freedom to national independence,the modern spirit of Romanticism provides us with an inexhaustible power.Chapter three and chapter four are the core content of this paper.The third chapter combs Guo Moruo’s acceptance of romanticism.In 1914,Guo Moruo went to Japan to study and began to be watered by romantic ideas.In 1919,driven by the awakening tide of the"May Fourth" era,its "egoistic" poetics of mind finally came into being:life was flawed at the beginning of creation,and gradually became perfect after the creation and renewal of human self.After the May 30th Movement in 1925,Guo Moruo realized that the "individual freedom" element of Romanticism hindered national development,so he made a clear turn away from Romanticism.In 1935,Guo Moruo,encouraged by the proletarian literary theory of the Soviet Union,re-recognized Romanticism.In his literary and artistic creation,he took the "progress" factor of Romanticism conducive to revolution as the weapon of national struggle,and fought for the ideal of national independence as a revolutionary.The fourth chapter separates Guo Moruo’s attitude towards Romanticism after several turns in the course of accepting it,clarifies his practice of modern spirit of Romanticism,and takes it as a standard to carry out a perspective on his literary and artistic creation.We find that Guo Moruo’s inheritance of the modern spirit of Romanticism is not a mechanical"accept-influence",but an innate tacit understanding and deep resonance with it in the depth of his personality.Among them,the focus on "human" is the core issue of the two,and the proposition of "self-power" is the key to their resonance and connection.Through his creative practice,Guo Moruo carried out the modern spirit of Romanticism into the beautification of feelings and the beautification of society.The fifth chapter summarizes Guo Moruo’s transformation of the modern spirit of Romanticism under the influence of the Soviet proletarian literary theory--revolutionary Romanticism,and on this basis expands his vision to the influence of the modern spirit of Romanticism on Chinese intellectuals.The modern spirit of Romanticism firstly reshaped the Chinese intellectuals who grew up under the tradition of "scholar-official" spiritually and deconstructed the traditional "scholar" culture.However,the modern spirit of Romanticism also has its dangerous side at present:the chaos of the inner world and the disorder of the outer world caused by "ego power".In this regard,through the re-examination of its source-German Romanticism,we realize that while beautifying the present,we must examine the present,and while reevaluating everything,we must rebuild everything,so that human beings can realize the perfection of life,and achieve real freedom and happiness.