Chapter 521 The Dean of the School of Drama Wants to Resign
At 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon, the auditorium with more than 1,000 people was packed with seats, including students from the Chinese Department of Northwestern University and literature enthusiasts from other departments.
Vice principal Liu Jianjun and a group of teachers sat in the front row.
Fang Minghua has given many lectures here. He stood on the podium today and said to everyone: "Students, I used to talk about novels here, but this time I will talk about another very important aspect of literature. Category - Cultural Prose. "
"Everyone has also seen that the content of my lectures posted in the courtyard has two words - Culture added in front of the prose. "
"Before I gave the lecture, some students said to me that this term was unfamiliar and they seemed to have never heard of it before. This is normal, because I made it up."
Fang Minghua said this. When he came out, the audience immediately burst into laughter.
“But what I emphasize here is that the writing technique of cultural prose has been tried for a long time. I wonder if you have heard of the two old gentlemen Jin Kemu and Zhang Zhongxing?”
The following are examples There are very few people with hands.
“Usually I like to ask girls to answer, but today I’m calling a boy.” Fang Minghua smiled and pointed to a boy leaning against the window and said, “The student at the far end of the sixth row by the window, please You answer.”
"Teacher Fang, Mr. Jin Kemu is engaged in translation and research on Indian culture, and Mr. Zhang Zhongxing is engaged in research on Chinese classical literature and intellectual history."
"That's a good talk. Did you know that both of them are also good at prose writing? Have you ever written a collection of essays?”
“I don’t know.” The boy shook his head.
"Please sit down." Fang Minghua continued: "As the classmate said just now, these two old gentlemen are both famous scholars in our country. They both study and work at Yanda, and Mr. Ji Xianlin Together they are known as the "Three Elders of Yan University". The collection of essays written by them, "Yan Pecks the Spring Ni" and "Negative Words of Negotiations", are cultural essays. Interested students can read them. ".
Minghua was talking eloquently above the stage, while people below the stage were talking quietly.
Not a student but a teacher from the Chinese Department of Western University.
“Have you heard of these two people?”
“I have heard of them, but I didn’t expect them to write prose. I’ll look through them when I have time.”
"Sure enough, people say that Fang Minghua is very knowledgeable, and he knows all about such unpopular works."
"Being able to take the position of editor-in-chief of "Yanhe" at such a young age makes other people who are the same age or even older than him in the literary world I admire the writer and call him a teacher. How can I stop talking about it and listen to him talk about this cultural prose? ”
On the stage, Fang Minghua continued his lecture.
"Cultural prose has the following characteristics:"
Cultural perspective in material selection: Cultural prose focuses on serious thinking and themes with large cultural inclusion, highlighting cultural meaning and cultural heritage, and some The themes even have spiritual implications.
Profound ideological content: Cultural prose must have a kind of cultural penetration in terms of ideological connotation, be deeper and thicker than lyric prose, and have the ultimate, rational and philosophical speculative color.
Cultural charm in artistic expression: not only must it have cultural character and cultural connotation, but also reveal the ups and downs, ups and downs of individual life through the historical pulse of culture, and more importantly, it must have a kind of The value stance of cultural criticism integrates cultural narrative and cultural criticism.
A bit boring.
Some people in the audience listened with gusto, while others felt drowsy.
At the end, Fang Minghua also pointed out the problems that are prone to occur in this kind of prose:
First, excessive sentimentality. If the whole article is too lyrical, it will weaken the sense of solemnity and sadness that you want to express;
2. Show off knowledge. There is a lot of historical knowledge in cultural prose, but it must not be written as a historical examination.
3. The vision is great and the intention is great, but in the end the key point to be expressed is seriously weakened. Many of them gloss over their faults and even fall into rhetoric.
After speaking for more than two hours, all the contents were covered, and the audience burst into warm applause.
The next step is question time as usual.
A girl suddenly stood up and said loudly.
"Teacher Fang, I don't understand what you are saying." "Are you a student of the Chinese Department?" Fang Minghua asked.
“No, I study geography, and I came here because of its reputation.”
My own fans.
"Study geography? Very good. After I write such an essay and publish it, the latest issue of "Yanhe" published two essays I wrote, "Age of Awakening" and "Columbus of the East". You can go Take a look
“Do you understand? "The two teachers whispered again.
"I understand it, but it's a bit difficult to write it down. It requires profound knowledge, strong professional knowledge in a certain area and very good writing skills, all of which are indispensable."
"But people say it has been written down. It has been published in "Yanhe""
"I will buy a copy later"
Fang Minghua's lecture at Western University was a great success. After sorting out the content, it was also published in the literary theory section of Yanhe magazine under the title "Sandan Zhixin: Theory and Practice of Cultural Prose Writing".
Shencheng, Academy of Drama.
This is an institution of higher learning with a long history, which has provided the country with a large number of outstanding drama and film and television talents. Its first president was the famous Gu Zhongyi, a famous drama theorist, educator and playwright in my country.
The current principal is Yu Qiuyu.
Yu Qiuyu, born in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province in 1946, was admitted to the Department of Drama Literature of Shanghai Theater Academy in the early 1960s.
In 1984, he won the first national drama theory book award for his "History of Drama Theory". He became the youngest full professor of liberal arts in the country at that time; in the same year, he published a book on drama aesthetics, "The Psychology of Dramatic Aesthetics".
Being appointed as deputy dean and dean of the Shanghai Theater Academy, president of the Shanghai Writing Society, consulting and planning consultant to the Shanghai Municipal Committee, and was selected as one of the “Top Ten Higher Education Elites in Shanghai”
At the age of forty, you reach the pinnacle of your life and enjoy unlimited glory.
But amidst the flowers and applause, he always felt that there was something missing.
Today he was in his office, and he was reading a magazine seriously.
A magazine published by "Yanhe" magazine in Xijing.
As for novels, he is not interested in avant-garde novels or new realistic novels, so he rarely reads "Yanhe". He heard a friend say that "Yanhe" has recently published several essays. Pretty good.
So, he bought a copy and flipped through it.
Sure enough, he saw "The Age of Awakening", "Columbus of the East", "Night Rain in Bashan" and "From Dujiangyan to Wumenyan".
Suddenly I discovered that prose can be written like this!
If you want to write, you must write with atmosphere!
It is no longer the case that "Lychee Honey" and "Camellia Ode" always use objects as metaphors for people, which is stylized and false.
Wang Zengqi once said: Chinese prose is worse than Yang Shuo, and secondly worse than Liu Baiyu. Although it is somewhat absolute, certain routines and patterns in their prose are indeed criticized.
Yu Qiuyu suddenly had a desire to travel around, visit the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, appreciate different scenery, and maybe write such wonderful words.
So he thought of resigning.
Fang Minghua naturally didn't know what was happening thousands of miles away. He still concentrated on creating according to his own plan, but he received a letter from Yanjing.
He was invited to join the Chinese Prose Society and recommended him to be a director of the society.
(End of this chapter)