"Compliance · Rebound · Transcendence – A History of the July Group (Chinese Literature Collection)"

Author: Zhou Yanfen
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Under the guidance of the open and broad literary history perspective of "20th Century Chinese Literature," this book explores the dynamic process and its causes of the emergence, evolution, and disappearance of a significant literary school—the July Group—during the modernization of 20th Century Chinese literature. Through the analysis and research of the achievements and stylistic characteristics of the July Group in theoretical criticism, poetry, and fiction, it reveals its unique position and value in the history of 20th Century Chinese literature. The framework and format of this book hold certain methodological significance for the study of literary schools and have accumulated new academic experiences for the research of modern Chinese literary schools. The author examines the July Group from the perspective of academic modernity, while the July Group itself is a highly symbolic literary phenomenon in China's modern transformation and the deepening development of 20th Century Chinese literature in the 1930s and 1940s, embodying rich modernity. Instead of elaborating on the modernity characteristics of the July Group based on specific modernity viewpoints, the book takes into account its full richness and complexity, demonstrating its modernity from its various internal and external relationships and factors.