Beijing school literature
Generally speaking, Beijing School literature later corresponds to Shanghai School literature. The thoughts and artistic tendencies of "Beijing School" writers are more complicated. Generally speaking, they are afraid of revolution and destruction while exposing social injustice. They pin their ideals of life on natural beauty, human beauty, especially local human beauty, to fight against the ugliness of reality. They emphasize that literature is a strong expression of the author's feelings and consciously keeps a certain distance from politics. They have natural and simple writing style, persistent pursuit of life, profound literary accomplishment, close to people's lives, and some come directly from the bottom. They oppose aestheticism literature divorced from society, but they are also incompatible with revolutionary realism literature.
The basic style and characteristics of Beijing School are: advocating simplicity, primitive beauty of human nature and human feelings; Carry forward the advantages of lyric freehand brushwork novels, integrate realism, remember "dreams" and image in one furnace; Peaceful, distant and meaningful style; Simple, simple, vivid and clear language.
The biggest difference between Beijing school literature and left-wing literature is that Beijing school emphasizes the "distance" between literature and the times and politics, and pursues humanistic and permanent literary value.
Left wing literature
Left-wing literature has three basic characteristics. 1. Left-wing literature uses Marxist class theory and literary thought to examine life and human nature under the macro background of social history. 2. Social value is higher than aesthetic value, which is the concrete embodiment of the value orientation and politicization tendency of left-wing literature. 3. The tendency of "socialization" in literary creation is aggravated, which is another embodiment of the political tendency of left-wing literature, characterized by attaching importance to the analysis of social objects and running through rational spirit.
Modernist literature
Modernism can be started from the New Sensation School. It is the most complete modernist novel. Modern people's vision and new modern forms are the introduction of western modernist literature in China. (The New Sensation School is an important stage of Shanghai School connecting the preceding with the following. )
The characteristics and tendencies of "modernism": it shows the deformity and morbidity of semi-colonial cities and provides another type of urban literature; Introduce a variety of modernist techniques and make innovations in novel structures, forms, methods and techniques; A new exploration has been made on the expression of human's "spiritual inner sea". Obsessed with expressing dual personality; Have a tendency of pessimism, despair and decadence.