Second, the three stages of the development of Shanghai style
Mandarin ducks and butterflies in the early Republic of China
Representative figures: Bao and Zhou Shoujuan.
Features: Inheriting the tradition of A Dream of Red Mansions and Flower Moon Traces, and influenced by the sadness of La Traviata and the sentimentality at the end of the century, it shows a sense of loneliness.
Modernism in the 1930s
Representative figures: Zhang Ziping and Zhang Yiping; Liu Naou, Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying (Shanghai Modernist)
Features: It directly adopts foreign modernist thoughts, such as Japanese neo-sensualism and Freud's psychoanalysis, to analyze people's behavior patterns and deep consciousness structure abroad.
Describing "the broken body of a metropolis" presents a nightmare oppression.
In the 1940s, he inherited the love tradition and explored the new Shanghai school of modernism.
Representative figures: Xu Xu, Anonymous, Su Qing and Zhang Ailing.
Three, the two main aspects of the development of Shanghai style
Romantic stories between men and women are closely related to romantic novels.
Learning from foreign modernism is a novel, active and bizarre means of expression.
Neo-sensualism
The sense organs of neo-sentimentalism, such as hearing, smell, vision, touch and taste, all seem to have some special functions, which can be directly transmitted to the perceived objects, giving them the feeling of life, thus making the hurried impressions form a stream of consciousness. Liu, Mu and others break down the urban landscape into fragments and colors, and shake off the rich flavor of smoke, wine and powder in the staggered rhythm of tango music; Their feelings about the city are complicated, colorful, sudden and magical.
First, urban cultural awareness
Anxiety, Emotional Experience and Melancholy in Writing and Urban Dialogue
Compared with the traditional lifestyle, Shanghai's urban lifestyle is a spiritual island; At the same time, the mechanical civilization of the city makes people feel that they have been thrown into the fast lane by life and will fall down at any time.
Wandering feeling
The new city figures who cut off the old contact did not find a new foothold, so they became wandering souls without roots and threads, wandering in the Shili foreign exchange. The wandering mood conveyed by Shanghai-style essays reflects their situation of being out of touch with the revolutionary mainstream and traditional civilization, unable to find their own living position and struggling to survive in the cracks. '
Second, the cultural awareness of citizens.
1. Anti-sublimity and dematerialization of the theme
2. Value orientation: hedonistic individualism values are consistent with civic awareness.
3. Emphasize practical rationality in the way of thinking.
Third, the cultural consciousness of literati.
The two main characteristics of 1. are impure and huge difference.
2. Differences can be divided into three types: leisure type, critical type and philosophical type.
Conclusion: Shanghai-style literati found themselves a nobody in the great changes of the times and recognized this identity. At the same time, they can't find the ideal fulcrum of life and can't regain the identity of cultural heroes, so they show the loss of words in front of the commercial society.