The Concept Of Pure Literature And Literature Practice In The New Period

The topic of "the new-period pure literary concept and literature practice" is a monographic study on pure literature in the new era.It aims at summarizing theoretical characteristics and literature practice process of pure literature during the new period,with an open view of the pure literature,which attaches importance on both the limitation of the construction of pure literary theory in the new period,and theoretical value which it contains,so that it can stir up new theoretical vitality and promote pure literary creation and criticism.The dissertation focuses on the pure literary concept in the new period combed and diversified forms of the pure literary creation,in order to conclude the characteristics of pure literature in the new period,and open up the pure literature boundary which is too narrow.First of all,this dissertation explains the motivation of the topic choice that is to recall the fact that the pure literature is the spiritual persistence towards the literary circle,that it is required to highlight the spirit of literature aesthetic in an era of the advanced mass culture,that it is necessary for the academic research to carry on the systematic analyses towards the pure literary concepts and literature practice in the new period.The research methods,such as using the historical culture,the combination of theory and practice,and the aesthetics,are applied into the dissertation,to prove the topic chosen significant in the theoretical construction and literature practice,as well as the innovative point.It summarizes the research achievements of China's new period.It focuses on demarcation of the time of the new period,the notions of pure literature and the pure literature texts in the new period.Secondly,the dissertation reviews the theory resources of forming pure literary concept in the new period.In the multiple theory resources,it selects some representative theories with great influence on forming the pure literary concepts in the new period.German aesthetics represented by Kant is the source of western modern pure literature thoughts,whose absorption and transformation also sheds a new light for new-period theorists and writers.In the view of literature theory,"the study on the inner features of literature" by René Wellek and Robert Penn Warren,two mature representatives of British and American new-criticism,has set a trend of " turning inward" in the new-period literary circle.Many scholars mentioned that their literary concepts have a great influence on the new-period literary circle in the history.As for Wang Guowei's aesthetic thoughts as a traditional representative,his rich theoretical expression plays a demonstrative role in forming the pure literary concept in the new period and writers' pursuit of literature.Furthermore,the other theory resources,such as linguistics and narratology,are elaborated in the way of the concept forming and text analyses.Thirdly,through the comparison between the pure literature in modern age and that in the new period,in the level of the circle valuation on the pure literature,literature choices and theoretical construction,the dissertation concludes similarities and differences between the two,which also shows the diachronic development of modern pure literature concept.It clearly puts forward the unique theoretical characteristics of the new-era pure literary concept: the unity of self-discipline and heteronomy,of humanity and aesthetics,of subjectivity and literariness.Furthermore,the concrete formation of the pure literature in modern age is to be concluded,which covers the literature returning to itself,meaningful literature forms,and fundamental features of aesthetic nature.In the framework of literature itself,the subjectivity of literature,the literary theory of "turning inward" and "Rewriting Literary History" phenomenon are included.The new-period pure literature always has further implication in exploring the forms,so "forms" are being enriched by the pure literature statements by Shi Tiesheng,the view of language by misty poets,the popularity of new-criticism,the growth of the theory of narratology,and the practice of pioneer writers."Aesthetics mania" in the modern age finds a way out to the freedom of humanity,and strengthen the concept expressions of new-period pure literature through emphasizing the nature of literature aesthetic.The pure literature aesthetic characteristics were highlighted,such as the "aesthetic principle" set up by the misty poetry,the "revaluation" by Wang Zengqi and other writers,and the statement on the aesthetic nature by scholars,unifying the aesthetics and humanity.Fourthly,this dissertation selects the misty poetry,post misty poetry,modernist novels,vanguard novels,dramas and other literature representatives to review the creation forms in the new-period pure literature.And from pure literary perspectives,various forms of texts prove innovative in the new-period literature.As for the choices of pure literature texts,this dissertation expresses the understanding towards of the pure literature in the various forms.Except the vanguard novels with distinctive literary characteristics,more texts,in the view of pure literature,clearly put forward that the literature practice as above are all the texts of pure literature,which carries a foreshadowing of considering the literature boundary.For better understanding of the new-period pure literature,this dissertation also picks up some texts by writers in 1990 s to be interoperated,in the hope of offering a new perspective to value the new-period pure literature.Fifthly,through reviewing the different views on the pure literature in the new period of 1990 s in the literary circle,the dissertation uncovers the realistic situation of the pure literature under the circumstance of the consumer culture.The new-period pure literature was mainly voicing for "aesthetic characteristics",while the pure literature in 1990 s for commercial culture.The rapid rising of mass culture has stirred up the reflection towards the pure literature in the literary circle,and then the pure literature concept is varying in the new era.Their reflection mainly covers four aspects: one is to actively maintain the new-period pure literature concept under the humanistic spirit in 1993;two is the doubt caused by Li Tuo's "on the pure literature";three is the argument over the fact that the bottom writing has promoted the pure literature;four is the concept that literariness is the soul of literature coming up with by scholars on an unswerving ground.Those voices concerning with the pure literature,telling the relationship between the pure literature and reality,the pure literature and literariness,has stirred up more deep consideration over the pure literature.The final part of the dissertation is to explore the realistic vitality of the theory of the pure literature and how to promote the writing of the pure literature,in the ways of understanding the dimension of the pure literature,the relationship between the pure literature and literariness,and the pure literature criticism.Also,it explores the reasons why the literary circle doubts the literariness,in the levels of the pureness and relativity of the pure literature,the methods of the pure literature involving in the reality,the contemporary anti-essentialism and research of essence and so on.The utterance choices from the pure literature and literariness reflects the cultural changes of the times,that the thoughts of modernity and postmodernity are combined together,leading to the difficulties in explaining the theory of the pure literature,meanwhile developing the new theory.With returning to the essential meaning of it,the notion of the literariness can be much clearer,and there exists the historical and traditional continuation between two both.The pure literature criticism,close linked to the development of the literary concept and literature practice,should pay more attention to evaluate the grade of literariness itself in the age of mass culture.