博士 / 輔仁大學 / 中文系 / 99 / In the period of the May Fourth Movement, the intellectuals were faced with the change of self-other relationship, the decline of tradition, and the impact of the past extended family structure being changed. From the year of 1911 to 1923, it was the golden age of China’s capitalism, and it was the time when China’s bourgeoisie was born. In the 1930s, it was the peak moment of pre-war urban civilization. The forming of metropolis changed the self-object-and-other relationships and influenced the intellectual’s thinking toward the individuals, history, and the nations. The changes also spread to the realm of literature. The techniques of expression were changed, and the attitudes that writers held toward literature were changed as well.
So far, there have been many theses and books that studied the Shanghai style, modern style, and the new sensibility urban novels. However, very few theses studied the left-wing urban novels. In fact, the left-wing writers have decided the basic appearance of its literature in the 1930s. The 1930s writers were deeply influenced by the left-wing culture, and this phenomenon could be seen in the writing topics, theme selection, techniques of expression, structure arrangement, and wording styles.
This thesis started with the status of left-wing urban novels in the left-wing literature. In chapter three, the rise of revolution and romance novels led by Kuang-Tzu Chiang was discussed. Chapter three also included “the influential power of May Fourth romanticism and individual liberation” and “the attitudes of the left-wing urban writers toward revolution and romance”. The four selected left-wing urban writers included Kuang-Tzu Chiang, Ding Ling, Mao Dun, and Tian-Yi Zhang.
Chapter four discussed “how the forming of metropolis strengthened the individualism”, “the self-other perspective of left-wing urban literature”, and “the narrative turn of left-wing literature that turned from personal narratives to collective narratives”. The Midnight by Mao Dun was a representative work of the narrative turn method, presenting the analyses of urban lives. In addition, the self-other relationship between the left-wing intellectuals and lower class citizens, along with the issues of elites and the general public, were discussed. The contents of chapter five included the urban-rural disparities wrote in the left-wing urban literature, the national identity of China and colonial cities, the rural myths of left-wing literature, and China’s future prospects created by the writers.
The vertical axis of this thesis was the development of left-wing literature, and the cross-section was the influential power of metropolis. Through these two elements, the complex relationship between the urban culture and the left-wing literature could be seen.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/099FJU00045019 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Chiang Hsin Li, 蔣興立 |
| Contributors | Ho, Chi Pen, 何寄澎 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 180 |
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