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"Humanism" has attracted attention in the American press. On the surface, it is a response and rebound to the authoritarian context of real industry and commerce and journalism professionalism, which is of progressive significance, but in fact it serves the current American news and political practice. "Humanism" should be a word generally recognized by the global news industry, but the identity of words often covers up the differences in concepts, which will lead to the differences in news humanistic care and even conflicts in the operation of news business. Therefore, under the background of globalization, the press should dialectically treat "humanism" in various contexts, be alert to the hegemonism that follows, and strive to push the global news communication to stand on the same front for the general welfare of mankind. In American journalism education, "humanism" is attracting attention: some of them put forward the concept of "humanism", which is opposite to "professionalism". Like William. Wu believes that professional principles such as objectivity and freedom of news ignore the concern for people, making news a purely technical existence lacking humanistic care (some of his speeches during the "2 1 century news and communication summit" in Shantou University were put forward from the origin of the relationship between journalism education and literature. For example, JAMES W.CAREY thinks: "The academic source of journalism should be rooted in humanities and humanities and social sciences. News should be linked with politics, so as to understand democratic life and democratic system; Contact with literature, so as to improve language and expression ability, and deeply understand the narrative way; And establish their own moral standards; Contact with art, so as to capture the complete visual world; Contact history and build your own consciousness and intuition on this basis. " Of course, judging from the disadvantages of journalism professionalism and the origin of journalism education, the proposal of "humanism" is also reasonable. Its proper application will inject fresh blood into journalism and correct some disadvantages of current journalism. But in fact, people with a little common sense know that the "humanism" in American journalism has adopted a method of "covering up", which covers up another origin of "humanism", that is, the "9. 1 1 incident" in the United States directly and the "value-centered consciousness" in the United States indirectly. However, this seemingly less clever means seems to have blinded many people. Even some China scholars responded, such as Leo Oufan Lee's affirmation of James. W.CAREY's point of view: "Caleb's argument has a humanistic basis: he thinks that journalism education should belong to the humanities or social sciences with humanistic significance …", and further points out that "the media is gradually changing from writing and printing to vision and network", which not only brings unprecedented and unimaginable influence to news, but also to the whole society. This influence has caused a broader humanistic crisis. "1, the spirit of humanism in the Renaissance: bourgeois ideas formed in the Renaissance are called humanism. Humanists advocate that everything should be "human" oriented and oppose the authority of God. This is because in the Middle Ages, all other forms of ideology were integrated into theology. Therefore, all attacks against the feudal system, on the whole, are bound to attack the church. The bourgeoisie should reevaluate the religious beliefs and other feudal ideas that hinder its development. In order to oppose the church's idea that life is bitter or evil, asceticism and the concept of the afterlife, the bourgeoisie affirms secular life, affirms people's right to pursue wealth and personal happiness, praises love, demands the liberation of personality, develops personal intelligence in various ways and advocates the spirit of adventure. In order to oppose obscurantism and mysticism, the bourgeoisie advocates rationality, believing that man is a rational animal and should pursue knowledge, explore nature and learn science and materialist philosophy. In order to oppose the cruel oppression of feudalism, the bourgeoisie advocates human love and fraternity. In order to oppose the hierarchy, the bourgeoisie praises friendship and personal morality and advocates equality. In a word, humanism reflected the requirements of a new class, was a progressive thought at that time, and showed abundant revolutionary vitality, confident optimism and great creativity. It was the initial ideological preparation for the later bourgeois revolution. 2. In the field of culture and art, humanists undertook the task of bourgeois anti-feudal struggle in the field of culture and thought. Their activities go deep into all fields of social life. Their initial activities were collecting ancient manuscripts and studying ancient languages, philosophy and literature. The outstanding representatives are Petrarch, Boccaccio, Blacciurini, followed by Biddy of France, Reichlin of Germany, Ailas Mué of the Netherlands, Moore of England, and Weiss of Spain. Their purpose is to draw ideological nutrition from ancient culture. At the same time, in all aspects of natural science, such as Leonardo da Vinci in Italy, Galileo, Copernicus in Poland, Kepler in Germany, etc. Philosophy, such as Vala in Italy, Dora in Milan, Montaigne in France, Bacon in England, social theory, such as Moore in England, campanella in Italy, and art, such as Leonardo da Vinci in Italy, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dulle in Germany, etc. , has made a lot of achievements. In the field of science, they laid the foundation of natural science and promoted the development of productive forces. In the field of philosophy, they contributed to the development of materialism. In the field of social thought, utopian socialism appeared for the first time. In the field of art, they opposed the illusory art of mechanical symbols in the Middle Ages and showed vivid realism. 3. Some of my personal comments and understandings I think that the culture and art of the Renaissance were dominated by humanism. With profound ideological content, high artistic generalization, free structure, all-encompassing figures and vivid and powerful language, it reflects the historical truth of this period, expresses the ideals of the new class and the wishes of the broad masses of people, promotes the development of European literature, lays the foundation of modern European bourgeois literature and makes great contributions to human culture. Abstract: Renaissance is a far-reaching bourgeois ideological and cultural movement, which changed the social and historical development process in Europe. In this historical change, humanistic literature came into being as a new set of ideas and literary creation ideas. It grew up under the banner of anti-church, developed in the wave of anti-feudalism, and entered the history of world literature with its unique characteristics and outstanding achievements. [Keywords:] Renaissance literature humanism I. Background/kloc-Since the 4th century, capitalism has sprouted in Europe due to the development of productive forces. All kinds of manual commerce have greatly promoted the development of capitalist economy, but also intensified social contradictions. Large-scale worker and peasant uprisings against feudal oppression broke out in France, Italy, Britain and Germany. The ideological system of feudal rulers in medieval Europe was religious theology, all superstructures served theology, and cultural science became "the slave of theology" completely. If the bourgeoisie wants to overthrow the spiritual rule of feudalism and religious churches, it must destroy this superstition of "God" and emphasize the role of "man". The bourgeoisie hopes to find a sharp weapon of anti-feudal theology from ancient culture, and ancient Greek and Roman culture is a model of ancient culture that has nothing to do with religious theology. They regard ancient Greek and Roman culture as a ready-made weapon to criticize religious theology, claiming to "revive" the lost classical literature and art, and actively explore and sort out ancient literary and artistic works, thus setting off an upsurge of studying and studying ancient Greek and Roman culture. The bourgeoisie, under the banner of "returning to Greece and Rome", aims to establish a new ideology and culture adapted to capitalist production. This vigorous movement to revive ancient culture in the late Middle Ages was called "Renaissance". But in essence, this movement is not a simple revival of classical culture, but the inheritance, utilization and creation of ancient culture by the bourgeoisie, which is a means used by them to destroy feudal theology and create a new bourgeois culture. Renaissance is not only a literary and artistic innovation movement, but also a comprehensive cultural innovation movement. This movement started in Italy, and later developed to Germany, France, Britain, the Netherlands and other countries, which influenced almost all fields of human culture. In this movement, a large number of outstanding representatives emerged, who made important contributions to human culture. Among them, humanistic literature is called the pearl in the history of world literature with its unique characteristics and outstanding achievements. Secondly, the humanism of the representative figures and their works in this period has distinct characteristics: they advocate using "human rights" to oppose "theocracy", using "humanity" to oppose "divinity" and using "humanity" to oppose "Shinto". The representative figures of humanistic literature in this period are Petrarch, Boccaccio, rabelais, Cervantes and Shakespeare. Their works attack feudal system, morality and religious asceticism from different angles through different forms, ridicule the evil deeds of feudal nobles and monks, and actively spread new ideas such as human nature, human rights, secular enjoyment, scientific knowledge and national unity. Known as the "father of humanism", Petrarch once shouted: "I don't want to be a god, I don't want to live forever, and I don't want to cover the sky with one hand. "For me, human honor is enough; This is what I prayed for. I am a mortal, and I only ask for what belongs to mortals. " Petrarch was educated in classical culture since childhood and was keen on collecting and studying ancient books. For the first time, he proposed that "humanism" and "theology" are two opposing concepts, and advocated studying the humanities to counter the theology of the church. His major achievement in literary creation is poetry, and his most outstanding masterpiece is songji. The poem praises the poet's love for Laura and shows the poet's view of happiness in pursuing secular life. Petrarch jumped out of the box of old lyric poetry and created sonnets, which described Laura's physical beauty and the poet's own complex thoughts, feelings and inner activities with meticulous brushwork. These poems boldly praise love, express the desire for happiness, and reflect the world outlook that humanism despises medieval morality and loves life. Like Petrarch, Boccaccio's famous short story "decameron" criticizes the darkness of religion and praises the freedom of love. The book runs through the humanistic thoughts of opposing feudalism, the Vatican, asceticism and the reunification of the motherland. The novel satirizes and attacks the hypocrisy of religious asceticism with sharp and pungent brushwork, and takes the natural rationality of human desires as a weapon to express that all love desires that can bring happiness are regarded as reasonable pursuits, not evil thoughts as the church said, which reflects the turn of humanists' self-awareness awakening. Cervantes was the most outstanding realistic writer in Spain during the Renaissance and the pioneer of modern realistic novels in Europe. His masterpiece Don Quixote marks a new stage in the development of European novels and has a far-reaching influence on European literature. It shows all kinds of social phenomena during the disintegration of Spanish feudal society in the end of16th century and the beginning of17th century in a realistic way, and follows the footsteps of Don Quixote's master and servant, depicting all kinds of drawbacks and failures of the Spanish dynasty in its heyday and decline. The novel not only depicts an all-encompassing picture of social life, but also successfully creates vivid and complex characters. The depiction of characters in novels often combines contrast and exaggeration to achieve the artistic effect of irony. Shakespeare was the greatest dramatic genius and poet in the English Renaissance, and also one of the most outstanding representatives of humanism. Marx called him "the greatest dramatic genius of mankind". He is a prolific writer. In his creative career of more than 20 years, he has created two long narrative poems, 154 sonnets, 37 plays and other scattered works. His major achievement is drama, such as Hamlet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, etc., which have become immortal works. These plays also run through the thoughts of humanistic literature. There is no lack of criticism of feudal system and tyranny in the play, and at the same time, it also expresses the concern of humanist writers about the national history and future, and intends to find the answer to the national future from the national history. Thirdly, as pioneers of bourgeois revolution, influential humanists took the lead in breaking out of various ideological cages in the Middle Ages, and described the struggle against feudal churches extensively with their own creations, which truly reflected the truth of historical process and social reality. They tried their best to eulogize the rationality of bourgeois feelings and passions, affirmed their personal interests and pursuit of pleasure, made a devastating impact on various spiritual shackles carefully woven by feudal rulers and religious figures, and made great contributions to the progress of human civilization and the development of history. If the Renaissance caused the spiritual home that people had built for a long time to collapse in an instant, then humanistic literature undoubtedly opened a window for people who had been bound by the medieval church for a long time, and people began to try to understand the world and human beings with a brand-new concept and perspective. References: [1] Cao Xiaoqing: New Era and New Literature. Huxiang Forum, No.6, 2007 [2] Wu Dayuan and Yang: History of European Literature, People's Literature Publishing House, 1985. [3] Bo Jiaqiu: "decameron" Wesley Wang, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 1995.