2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study of Modern Chinese Literary History Based on the Thinking Mode of the Literary Creation
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12610470
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
中国語・中国文学
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
IWASA Masaaki Faculty of Languages and Cultures, Prof., 大学院・言語文化研究院, 教授 (60136546)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Keywords | HG model / Light and Darkness / modern Chinese literature / contemporary literature / new period literature / thinking mode for the creation of literature |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to establish the new model to describe the history of modern Chinese literature. This model is based on thinking mode for the creation of literature. I named it "breaking 'heian' (darkness) and pursuing 'guangming' (light)" model, abbreviated as 'heian'/'guangming' (called HG model for short).
The main achievement of this study is to explain HG model had controlled the creative thinking pattern for poetry from 1919 to the early-eighties. However, HG model is applied in concrete literary works, it demonstrates a variety of forms.
In the period between the May Fourth and the birth of PR China, 'heian' in reality is the most essential recognition in Chinese literature. Numerous writers believe that a good life for Chinese is to overcome the 'heian', in reality and to attain 'guangming', or to fight for this cause. Further, they generally consider political corruption and the invasion from imperialist superpowers the cause of the 'heian' in Chinese society. Many writers, accordingly, reasons that in order to live a better life Chinese must break through the 'heian' in the society and then fight for 'guangming' for the country. I take this as the common ground shared by the intellectuals of before the birth of PR China.
As for the poetry which created in the Left-wing literature, this model is universally applicable, but it can be applicable only for the limitation works of the non-left-wing literature in 1920s. This is the weak point in the result of this study.
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