Abstract
In the late 1920s, the debates about the nature, function, direction and position of "revolutionary literature" were accompanied by various conflicting voices. In each stage of the revolutionary literature developed afterwards, there were "alien" elements that diverged from literary mainstream and authoritative discourse. With the development of history, these "alien" authors constantly developed and finally formed a continuous genealogy of heresy. In the context where mainstream culture became increasingly conservative and ideological discipline turned stricter, they were gripped in a historical dilemma. Originally, Chen Duxiu and Lu Xun were two revolutionaries with the same ultimate goal, but they had different characteristics in aspects of personalities, behaviors and ways to pursue the goal, thus being the two sources of the "heretical quality" in revolutionary literature. From the perspective of deep spititual structure, the "heretical quality" of revolutionary literature contains a type of tension between the pursuit of modernity and the impulse of a modern nation-state.
First Page
204
Last Page
218
Recommended Citation
Xie, Huiying. 2019. "On the Genealogy of Heresy in Revolutionary Literature." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (4): pp.204-218. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss4/11
