Refining Language To Establish Sincerity

The ideas of literary truth are deeply related to the essence of literature because literary truth is the source, the foundation and the reason of literature. Therefore, it is very necessary to study literary truth although it is not a hot topic.The present dissertation discusses Chinese ideas of literary truth. It sketches the structure of Chinese ideas of literary truth from the complicated history, and it also searches and understands the history of Chinese ideas of literary truth in its structure. According to the dissertation, truth, or literary truth, has two dimensions: one is "truth of experience", and the other is "truth of verity". The so-called "truth of experience" means the direct experience of the actual encounter between the human being and the world by way of senses and idea, or means the sincerely of someone's inner world. It is "truth" or "sincerity" in the sense of experience. However, the so-called "truth of verity" means the law of motion in the universe or the hidden inner structure, order and motive force derived from deduction and induction or by intuition. This is "verity," the "essence" or "noumenon" hidden from phenomena although the so-called "truth of verity" is usually only the ideological assertion, and it is not the real "verity", but instrumentality of political ideology. Then, the so-called "literary truth" has a new definition: the verity or experience expressed in literary narratives. As the two dimensions of literary truth, "truth of experience" and "truth of verity," form the structure of Chinese ideas of literary truth, and the history...