Study of Chinese & Japanese Literary Modernism in Early 20th century

중일(中日) 모더니즘 소설의 수용과 전개에 대한 시론(試論) - 신감각파(新感覺派)를 중심으로

  • Received : 2013.05.10
  • Accepted : 2013.06.07
  • Published : 2013.06.30

Abstract

This paper is the study of literary modernism school(新感覺派 xinganjuepai), appeared in the early 20th century in China and Japan. This literary modernism, developed in Japan in the 1920s, was developed in China after 10 years in the 1930s. Chinese literary modernism was influenced by the Japanese school. However, the following occurs the difference in modernism caused by background of the two countries. Japanese school of literary modernism was formed by a backlash against the proletarian literature. The rivalry between Japanese proletarian literature and literary modernism occurred in 1920's. Literary modernism in China occurred in the course of the development of the proletarian literature, as part. In addition, China's literary writers of modernism have expressed their support proletarian literature for the position. This difference between the two countries can be caused by the difference of historical background (imperial and colonial) in early 20th century.

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