The"Rhetoric of Seasons"and the"Golden Age":Imagining the 1980s at the Grassroots of Literature
In the 1980s,grassroots literary periodicals habitually used the"rhetoric of the seasons"with spring as the central image in both their titles and their forewords.It originated from the"let a hundred flowers bloom,a hundrend schools contend"literary policy,and gradually crystallized into a rhetorical pattern that refers to socialist literature and its historical changes,and contains a frame of reference for grassroots literary workers to understand the holistic historical process of the 1980s.The imagination of grassroots literary periodicals about the 1980s experienced a shift from the"golden age"to the"last train".In this process,there are different degrees of synchronization and difference between the grassroots and the upper levels of literature,especially in the perception and understanding of the atmosphere of the times,literary trends and intellectual movements.
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