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The May Fourth Literature and Existentialism

Yang Jing-jian

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and the May Fourth is a subject that has not been confronted squarely in academia.It is an important academic construction to explore this topic.Firstly the May 4th Movement in 1919 is a cultural enlightenment movements,so the existentialist tendency in the context of enlightment becomes the inevitable result.Secondly,judging from the chain of discourse significance from romanticism to modernism to irrationalism,the so-called new romantic discourse is a kind of existential expression.Thirdly,to analyse it in the viewpoint of life philosophy,the poetics of life and creative modality of the May Fourth Literature display their significance on the creative ontological of the Existentialism Literature on the basis of absorbing the western life philosophy.

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and the May Fourth is a subject that has not been confronted squarely in academia.It is an important academic construction to explore this topic.Firstly the May 4th Movement in 1919 is a cultural enlightenment movements,so the existentialist tendency in the context of enlightment becomes the inevitable result.Secondly,judging from the chain of discourse significance from romanticism to modernism to irrationalism,the so-called new romantic discourse is a kind of existential expression.Thirdly,to analyse it in the viewpoint of life philosophy,the poetics of life and creative modality of the May Fourth Literature display their significance on the creative ontological of the Existentialism Literature on the basis of absorbing the western life philosophy.

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and the May Fourth is a subject that has not been confronted squarely in academia.It is an important academic construction to explore this topic.Firstly the May 4th Movement in 1919 is a cultural enlightenment movements,so the existentialist tendency in the context of enlightment becomes the inevitable result.Secondly,judging from the chain of discourse significance from romanticism to modernism to irrationalism,the so-called new romantic discourse is a kind of existential expression.Thirdly,to analyse it in the viewpoint of life philosophy,the poetics of life and creative modality of the May Fourth Literature display their significance on the creative ontological of the Existentialism Literature on the basis of absorbing the western life philosophy.

Key concepts: Existentialism, Enlightenment, Romanticism, Poetics, Context (archaeology), Modality (human–computer interaction), Expression (computer science), Epistemology

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