Looking At The Chinese Literary Theory Structure From The Evolution Of Its Relationship With Culture And Arts

1,General ConsiderationAt present, the literary theory is formed based on different References. Some put more emphasis on epistemology, some on reflectionism and some on Practice; Some stress on historical view, or human view, or aesthetic view; Some draw on the discourse of western theory; some, nonetheless, insist on convergence and innovation of multi-angle and multi-horizon, and so on so forth. There are also many a people who suggest the theory be constructed from cultural and Arts appreciation prospect. Looking at all of them, however, the interpretation of the relationship of the literary theory with culture and Arts is conceptual and not in-depth, or culture and Arts are just the normal content of the theory, never or seldom mentioning the value system of culture, and also seldom considering its inherent relationship with literary theory from the point of view of transformation of culture value system. The popular culture study is basically schemes within western discourse. The Theory of Literature in itself shows a different state at different time regarding its study and persistence on elements and standard of Arts.This paper, from a systematic viewpoint, adhering to the reality of literature and its theory development, and starting from the evolution of the relationship of the literary theory with culture and Arts, is trying to analyze and reveal the features, changes, and determinants of the relationship of the literary theory with culture and Arts, based on which, the theory of literature to be formed with culture and Arts as major dimensions is pondered on, and the tentative assumption of the literary theory structure referenced on culture and Arts is proposed.2,The structure and major contents of the paperThis paper has Introduction and five chapters.The Introduction is also an important supplement of the main body as it defines the culture and Arts, two key concepts in the main body, and articulates on their connotation. In terms of culture, starting from its value system, its systematicity, nationality, and totality, as well as its long-lasted potential influences on the population are paid more attention. And in case of Arts, the essence of it is understood from its spirit of original and Aesthetic independence, and this can also apply to the literature. On the basis of the definition of these two concepts, the development of the literary theory is explored, and the significant correlation of culture and Arts, two elements in the literary theory development history, is demonstrated. Then, the fundamental relationship of the literary theory with culture and Arts, together with the complementary relationship with literature, is interpreted; the subject idea of the paper is proposed.Chapter one, by analyzing the evolved relationship between the culture tradition and ancient literary theory, illustrates the classical status and general features of the relationship of the literary theory with culture and Arts, and revelation for the modern literature theory. The relationship of the literary theory with culture and Arts, in ancient China, was manifested as the relationship between the culture tradition and ancient literary theory and Arts tradition, the key feature of which is that, mainly represented by the powerful protocol of the culture tradition, the culture tradition, which carried the "Doctrines", enabled three parts--the classical literature that was not well defined from the history and philosophy, and ancient literary theory with notes on poets and poetry as major status, and the knowledge on traditional Arts, all became carriers that communicated core value of culture. The literary theory was developed under this background. Though the powerful position of the culture restricted the free development of the literature and the literary theory, the Chinese literature and Arts corresponding to the culture essence and with unique Aesthetic temperament and Aesthetic Horizon, was hence able to be derived, together with the ancient literary theory related to it. The ancient literary theory was inherently correlated with the main stream cultural tradition, and that guaranteed its localized and normalized development, as well, by means of its special poetic language system, it served as the constant function of the literary theory such as explanation and guiding role for classical literature. This is the modern revelation of the classical status analysis of the relationship between the literary theory and culture and Arts.Chapter two to four are basically an integral part, which studies,from specific viewpoint of cultural and Arts, how the relationship between the modern literary theory and culture and Arts incepted, established, and developed from late QING dynasty to 20th century, and describes its major evolution status and features. Chapter two studies the modern transformation of the relations of literary theory with cultural and Arts,at the key era when Chinese society was experiencing modern transformation from 1840 to 1919,. From the culture perspective, mainly as a result of the mass introduction of western culture, the traditional culture was dismantled. Because of the strength of the western culture, at one time, the western ideology became the dominant culture value; in terms of Arts, it was the introduction and establishment of modern western Arts, and separation, inception and development of new literature with writings in colloquial language as mainstay from traditional essay systerm. In terms of the literary theory, accompanied with the introduction of western value, the Chinese modern literary theory pattern was initially set up which was referred to western theory paradigm. The relations of literary theory with cultural and Arts realized its modern transformation along with the transformation of all three elements. However, at the emergence period, three elements--literary theory, culture and Arts, did not quickly set up organic relationship. At this period, while the western culture penetrated gradually, the modern transformation of the literary theory, literature, Arts led by the introduction and strengthening of western culture value represented the main feature of the relationship evolution of literary theory with cultural and Arts.Chapter three observes the period from 1919 to 2000.1919 to 1949 is a period laying foundation for the development of literal theory. The main feature of this era is that the western literary theory was continuously introduced, and combined with the explanation and criticism toward Chinese new literature practice. During this period, the modern status of the relationship of literary theory with culture and Arts were gradually established, which had relatively big influences on the development of the modern literary theory.1949 to 1978 belongs to contemporary era. Even though the "Unary" feature was quite obvious, the literary theory, on its subject formation, systematic and standard development, especially on the Marxist literary theory construction, had made great progress. The evolution of the relationship of literary theory with culture and Arts was in a "aphasia" situation, but the criteria for the literature creation and appreciation was never abandoned.1978 to 2000 is the former twenty years of the new era, and the prosperous twenty years in the history of Chinese literary theory development. Culturally, due to the economic development which led to the thirst for material life, another turn of western culture erosion occurred again. The introduction of western value resulted in great changes of people's inner world. Artistically, the theory study was being continually expanded and deepened, generating the growing Aesthetics and Aesthetics of Literature; Literarily, the new era literature represented by individual liberation, among them particularly "Rooting for Roots" "Scar literature" and "Mistry poetry", were prospering.Regarding the literary theory, in line with the cultural xenophilia, learning of the Academic approach and logic system of the western theory pushed forward the development and innovation of Chinese literary theory, bringing the theory knowledge and Theoretical depth to a high level. On the other hand, the over dependence on the western literary theory also led to the situation that it was difficult to get rid of the dependent learning habit, In general, since the society, economy and culture were all under rapid growth, the relationship of the three elements were quite unstable-the stable status constrained by cultural tradition like ancient time could not be formed, instead, the conflict and convergence of culture and Conscious independence of Arts were used as principle line, forming the relationship was constantly explored. There were achievement, and lessons.Chapter 4, regarding the situation of the literature in new era, particularly new century as object, tries to analyze it from different angles, and shows the new trend of the connotation changes of literary theory, culture and Arts, as well as their relationships. This chapter studies the new crisis and new challenges brought by the new trend, with "pan culture" and Aestheticization as representatives after entering the new era. The literature as important carrier of the culture, since the mass culture were popularized, had undergone great changes in its state of being, and, with the transformation of mass culture, and development of technology and science and media, it gradually started to vary dramatically in a way that was quite difference from the traditional transformation path-one part remained the traditional literature status, the rest showed the Pan culture tendency, extending the boundary of literature in its classical definition and challenging the traditional mode of existence of the literature. The literature, as the major study object of the literary theory, encountered the huge impact from Pan culture, resulting in the concatenated reaction of the relationship of the literary, culture and Arts; issues such as aphasia of the literary theory and Aesthetic "Generalization" followed suit. In addition, the new crisis of the literary theory in terms of its legal existence and theoretical right to say incurred. The proposition of reconstructing the theory stood more out.Chapter five is the core of the whole paper. Based on the analysis of and issues revealed from the previous four chapters, this chapter proposes the outlined opinions of the literary theory construction, making its efforts toward a literary theory with the feature of localization and nationalization, as well as actuality, relevance and practicalness. From the culture standpoint, the cultural status at present in China is multi-dimension and complex, the literary theory, only by establishing relevant relationship with main stream culture, and relationship in difference style with other supplementary cultural status, can solve effectively the theoretical problem of actuality, relevance and nationalization. This paper analyzes in detail the necessity of reconstructing the relationship between the literary theory and culture, as well as how to establish and what issues can be solved. Meanwhile, the relationship reconstruction between the literary theory and the culture, reacting on the culture reconstruction, is the modern reflection of the "culture carrying" function of the literary theory, though the connotation of it has been changed significantly. From the Arts dimension, the paper proposes that the literary theory reconfirms with regression feature the Artsistic essence of the literature and gives out modern explanation conforming with modern feature. And, not only the proper explanation, scientific guidance for changing from the literature to pan culture and Aestheticization are needed, in order to protect the subjectivity and legitimacy of the Arts, the proactiveness, sensitivity were also to be reinforced to find the new changes of Arts elements, aesthetic features under new culture and technical situation, explaining the variation and innovation relative to tradition and internalizing into theory the conceptual knowledge of the new matters, which form new theoretical innovation with defined knowledge, logic and system.