On The Existing Mode Of Literature In The Context Of Modern Media

This dissertation aims to illustrate the existing mode of literature (abbreviated as EML in this paper) as the basic theoretical issue of literature. It means to construct a kind of concrete being in the present social and cultural context instead of a true theoretical pattern of literary existence beyond context. From the viewpoint of theories of communication and media, modern media has influenced the eastern and western society greatly since printing revolution, and formed a new existing context for literature. Thus, "researches on the EML in the context of modern media" become the issue field and the study topic in this dissertation, along with the following parts:"Introduction": Beginning from today's popular version of "literature termination" and the inquiry of the essential attributes of literary theory study, this part states that literature is a kind of realistic being in both the eastern and the western worlds at present, explaining that the existence of the study of basic literature theory is decided by the most abstract and basic attributes of theoretical study, while the basic literary theories including the EML study are unnecessary to be governed by the thinking pattern of essential theory and metaphysics. Consequently, researches on the EML have their own internal legality."The Basic Issues of Studying the EML": Since 20^th century it has been found that the existing way of things is more basic and closer to its ontology compared with its essence. Thus the shift, from studying the essence of "existence" to the "way", has appeared in the western philosophy and human science. Therefore, the study of the...