"Woodcut Sense"of the Grotesque Writing in Harnessing the Flood:On Lu Xun's Aesthetic Choice of Kollwitz's Woodcut Art
In the process of creating Old Tales Retold,Lu Xun was influenced by the grotesque style of Kathe Kollwitz's woodcut art under the guidance of his literary and artistic view called"literature as one of the arts".With the formation of Lu Xun's image cognitive art view,"language-image"is in the stage of correlation,and the interaction between image media and text media is manifested as"woodcut sense"of the grotesque writing.This aesthetic orientation is concentrated andhighlighted in Harnessing the Flood.Throughout the artistic construction of the character image,field,plot and genre of Harnessing the Flood,the text has an endogenous grotesque aesthetic structure.The text of Harnessing the Flood implies Lu Xun's personality of"burden-bearer"born from the contradiction between social reality and personal pursuit,which is a metaphor for his spiritual figure of"shouldering the dark gate".The depressed artistic charac-teristics correspond to the inherent unity of Lu Xun's philosophical thoughts and artistic concepts during this period.
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