Author(s)

Xing Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Quality Education Center, Henan University of Finance and Law, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450046, China

Corresponding Author

Xing Wang

ABSTRACT

As an important genre and narrative tradition of Chinese classical literature, legend has been inherited and developed with unique personal characteristics by different writers in the historical practice of modern Chinese literature. From the historical perspective of "tradition and development", this paper aims to sort out and summarize different types of legend writing in the history of modern literature, such as Lu Xun's historical myth and legend, Lao She's market legend, Shen Congwen's Xiangxi legend, the later romanticism's urban legend, and the revolutionary war legend in the literature of the Jiefang District. The "legendary" landscape of modern literature contains multiple values such as historiography, aesthetics, and narratology, deeply reflecting modern writers' genuine understanding of folk cultural traditions, artistic aesthetic attitudes, and a proper grasp of elegance and vulgarity.These different types of legend writing are historically and aesthetically prescriptive and self-sufficient, The legendary tradition provides rich national spiritual and cultural resources for modern literature. As an important social history phenomenon, modern literary legend writing is the result of the blending of cultural tradition and historical practice, which reflects the theoretical consciousness of "legend" in a specific social period and literary and artistic background, and has unique value for the current cultural and social development.

KEYWORDS

Modern literature, Legendary tradition, Inheritance, Aesthetic practice, Innovate

CITE THIS PAPER

Xing Wang, The Inheritance and Development of Legendary Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 55-59. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060508.

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