Discourse Reconstruction And Transformation Of Literature In The 1980s

Based on the existing research results of "returning to the literature of the 1980s",this paper tries to break the traditional path of "ideological trend + writer + works" in the study of literary history,focusing on the competition of literary dominance among discourse subjects that play a dominant role behind the development and evolution of literature,and makes a new interpretation of it.As far as the literary discourse itself is concerned,it bears the function of "bridge" between the "literary-political" discourse system inherited from the "Yan 'an Period" to the "Seventeen Years Period" and the "literary-mass" discourse system under the influence of the market economy in the1990 s.So,what are the discourse subjects? What kind of discourse game is going on between them? And what kind of course of discourse reconstruction and transition has been constructed? These questions constitute the main structure of the thesis.The paper is divided into six chapters:Chapter one,the overall trend and discourse composition of literature evolution in the 1980 s.This paper discusses the overall context of the exploration of literary autonomy in the 1980 s in the hope of the transformation of the modern nation state.At this time,the overall evolution of literature from the modern turn of literature brought by the political reform,to the aesthetic self-regulation innovation of returning to the noumenon,and then to the powerful transformation from elite to secular under the influence of the market transition constituted the basic context of the reconstruction and transformation of literary discourse in the 1980 s.The ideological guiding function of the mainstream political discourse,the enlightenment value and aesthetic innovation of elite literary discourse and the consumption guidance of the nascent literary market discourse constitute the basis of the reconstruction and transformation of literary discourse in the whole 80 years.Chapter two,discourse reconstruction of mainstream politics in the "new era".At the beginning of the "new period",the discourse reconstruction efforts of the upper mainstream on the basis of political reform are discussed.On the one hand,it has carried on the self-flexibility adjustment to the "revolutionary" political discourse for a long time in the new historical period;On the other hand,it presupposes the literary order of the "new socialist period" with both freedom and norms.At the same time,it establishes the overall discourse pursuit of "putting things right" and "modernization" in the direction of creation,and guides and regulates the "deviant discourse".Through a series of adjustment,adjustment and construction,the mainstream political discourse has completed the reconstruction of its "literature-political" discourse system in the new historical period.Chapter three,the internal discourse collision under the mainstream discourse order.After the honeymoon period of literature and politics at the beginning of the "new period",the internal conflict between the mainstream political discourse and the elite literary discourse exists in the "literature-political" discourse system.With the awakening of humanity and the expansion of enlightenment power brought about by the advance of ideological liberation,the mainstream political discourse is increasingly impacted by the enlightenment discourse of elite intellectuals,and the two are constantly discursive in the understanding of "humanism" under the pursuit of human freedom and the understanding of "realism" under the pursuit of artistic freedom.The whole literature is gradually manifested as the substitution of "enlightenment" for "revolutionary",or the substitution trend of "literary discourse" for "class discourse".Under this trend,the new "literary-political" discourse order constructed by the mainstream discourse is increasingly showing the potential crisis and progressive failure of deconstruction.Chapter four is the transformation and reconstruction of elite intellectuals' literary discourse.This paper discusses the transformation of literary self-disciplined discourse from the beginning of 1980 s to the middle of 1980 s.At the level of literary theory,elite intellectuals weaken and dissolve political discourse and establish their aesthetic discourse system through a series of discourse debates,such as image thinking debates,"rising school" debates,literary subjectivity debates,and the introduction of western modernism discourse resources.In the construction of literary,they through the new "writer-critic-editor" discourse isomorphism.In the field of creation,they carried out the self-disciplined discourse transfer by two ways: the enlightenment promotion from "humanity" to "rationality" and the text internal transformation from "content" to "form".Through a series of comprehensive aesthetic changes,elite intellectuals with a strong momentum of a comprehensive impact on the "literary-political" discourse system under the "Yan 'an Literature and art" tradition,once realized the "literary-aesthetic" discourse system represented by the "85 wave" fundamental transformation and reconstruction.Chapter five,the intervention of nascent market and the re-transformation of literary discourse.This paper discusses the readjustment of the discourse power of elegance and vulgarity brought about by the transition from planned economy to market economy in the middle and late 1980 s.At this stage,both the mainstream political discourse and the elite literary discourse began to consciously seek cooperation with the emerging literary market discourse based on their respective value demands.However,with the market forces in the late 1980 s,literary discourse began to move towards the juxtaposed discourse of mainstream,elite and mass formed in the 1990 s,and started a new transformation trend of "literary-mass" discourse system.Chapter six,modernity reflection on the reconstruction and transformation of literary discourse in the 1980 s.This paper discusses the discourse autonomy exploration of "modern literary imagination" in the game between mainstream political discourse,elite literary discourse and literary market discourse,behind the intense reconstruction and transformation of literary discourse in the era of literary upheaval in the 1980 s.And three discourse modes of enlightenment modernity aesthetic modernity and secular modernity with Chinese specific connotations.On this basis,the author makes an overall reflection on the reality of "unfinished" in his intense exploration of discourse autonomy,as well as the aesthetic gain and loss in the value orientation of discourse construction and choice.