| Starting from the study of paradigm "context", this dissertation introduces contextual theory into literary study, and insists that the "literary context" could exist as a thought to connect internal research and external research of literature. Because of the difference of Self-discipline and Heteronomy in literary study, plus the generalization of literature, the study of "literary context" becomes more particularly crucial in solving this plight of literary studies. Through the review, we find that there are three problems:Boundless, Relativism and Constructivist in the study of "literary context". Therefore, after solving these diplomas, this paper attempts to establish a literary context theory, which absorbs the essence from the turn of "language" to "discourse" in language philosophy.The First Chapter,"Contextual Study and Context", is designed to comb contextual thinking in philosophy (the newly developed linguistic schools and European language philosopher), linguistics (objective, cognitive, and dynamic context in three models) and cultural theory (Register as a small context and cultural studies). Based on these study, we can examine the essence, nature and structure critically, and analysis of the plight of "Context Research" to find a way out.The Second Chapter,"The History of Literary Context Theory and It’s Way of Presence", is designed to analyze the representation of literary context in Social history Criticism, New Criticism and Constructuralism and Deconstructuralism. From that, we find that there are two main plight, that is the default of subject position and boundless in literary context study. So according to the problems, I find a effective methods to deal with it. Meanwhile, I bring about the conceptual connotation and the relational definition of the literary context, and explore its theoretical character and practical properties from three dimensions, that is ontology, practice and function.The Three Chapter,"The Dimensional Analysis of the Literary Context and It’s Representation of Literary Stylistics", is designed to study literary context statically and three-dimensionally from spatial levels(the context of literary works, literary situational context and literary cultural context), then connect three of them through Hallidayan context theory; analyze the process of literary context’s generation(the early time, formation and maturity);study the respective contextual features in literary stylistics (poetry, drama and novel).In the last part, we summarize the whole paper’s content about literary theory and reveal the character of the literary context. |
