Writers' Interaction with the Literary Public Sphere in Chinese Urban Space: A Study Combining Historicity and Contemporaneity

Abstract

This paper studies the urban space and literary public sphere from the historical perspective of the Republican period, which is rich in literary creation in the urban space. With the development of modernization, the subject of public sphere was transformed, and the subject of public sphere completed the historical transmutation from the gentry class to the citizen intellectuals. Writers such as Lao She's urbane writing, Wang Xiaobo's intellectual resistance, Han Han's subcultural breakthrough and Guo Jingming's consumer narratives have demonstrated unique public practices in different times, and writers of Internet literature have also promoted the development of the digital public sphere. Changes in urban space have led to new trends in the literary public sphere, globalization and technological development have had an impact on the public nature of literature, and cultural criticism has played an important role in the realization of the public nature of literary theory in the literary public sphere. The evolution of contemporary urban spatial patterns has given rise to the paradigm transformation of the literary public sphere, and the globalization of capital flows and the revolution of intelligent technology have played a dual role in the topology of the literary public sphere.