"Decadent"Aesthetics,Irony and Parody:Eileen Chang and Qian Zhongshu's Fiction in Occupied Shanghai(1937-1945)  

作　　者：Kejun Xu 

机构地区：[1]Institute of Arts and Humanities,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,No.800,Dong Chuan Road,Minhang District,Shanghai 200240,People's Republic of China

出　　处：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》2023年第1期41-61,共21页复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）

摘　　要：This article provides the readers with vivid examples and detailed analysis of how "decadent"aesthetics find expressions in fiction written by Eileen Chang and Qian Zhongshu in occupied Shanghai during the War of Resistance against Japan(1937-1945).The main purpose of this article is to dig into the works of fiction by these two writers to examine the representations and variations of the aesthetics of"decadence".Through detailed textual and intertextual analysis,the aesthetical characteristic of"decadence"can be found in fiction written during the War of Resistance against Japan,which proves that the style of"decadence"was not just confined to the European continent,but was also an international literary movement that had already been spread to China's Mainland.Shrouded in the sinister shadow of the war,which annihilated thousands of lives and resulted in the collapse of the existing social values of that time,fiction writing demonstrated a style of "decadence",effusing ennui and desperation,in which the depiction of the mundane urban life was tinged with an annoying atmosphere of the doomsday.Meanwhile,fiction writing had become a means of escape for writers to assuage the anxieties of living and to dispel the melancholies deep down in their hearts.The deficiency of material life as well as spiritual life together constituted a grotesque atmosphere in which the style of"decadence"could thrive through literary works.Eileen Chang and Qian Zhongshu in occupied Shanghai during the War of Resistance against Japan embraced the advocacy of"art for art's sake"proclaimed by the decadent aesthetes,attaching more subtleties and complexities to their works of fiction with a belief that the literature could correlate to the social atmosphere to which they belonged.Modernism and Realism were miraculously combined together;idealism had been questioned and even discarded,while nihilism and hedonism reared up their ugly heads.

关 键 词：DECADENCE MODERNISM REALISM IRONY PARODY 

分 类 号：I207[文学—中国文学]