Overwatch: Also on the Development of Contemporary Chinese Avant-Garde Literature

Author: Hong Zigang
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: Hong Zigang is a highly active young critic. With a keen eye, meticulous thinking, accurate judgment, and an open mind, his literary criticism has always maintained a distinct and sharp individuality. This book is a systematic and representative monograph based on his many years of research on avant-garde literature, as well as a "theoretical guide" for studying it. Avant-garde literature has always been one of the most important and challenging academic hotspots and in literary research both domestically and internationally. Because the pace of literary progress and the prospects of literary exploration depend to a certain extent on the results of countless avant-garde writers' explorations and their experimental efforts in art. In this sense, this book chooses avant-garde literature as the object of study and incorporates it into the historical context of modernity. It integrates the dualistic thinking of avant-garde literary research in form and content, and takes the spiritual world of the creative subject as the core to comprehensively examine many features of avant-garde literature. It analyzes their internal trajectory as they gradually move toward artistic autonomy in the process of rebellion and transcendence.