Several Thoughts About Changing Ideas Of Literature Art During "the Post-New Period"

The circle of the literature theory of our country has been regarding the essence of the art of literature as a kind of social ideology that belongs to the economic base since 1950s. This opinion came mainly from the Soviet Union. By the end of 1980s, people began to suspect the rationality of the opinion, and this suspicion was caused from the deficiency of the opinion itself and the challenge that this view encounter in the course of putting this theory into practice. The circle of literature theory began to explore the essence of the literature art from new aspects, while the old theories of literature art s essence were criticized completely at same time. It began by objecting to the "monism" with thought of "pluralism" of essential view about the art of literature. Around the mid-1990s, the explanation about the essence of literature art had already been a kind of plural, co-existing, and equal, situation, forming a lot of new essential view of literature art, such as "aesthetic ideology theory" , "system theory" and "structure theory" , etc.The most distinct transition was that people began to regard literary work as a kind of commodity in the changing course of literature idea during the earlier period of 1990s. This kind of idea resulted in a fierce dispute since it came in. Though some people opposed this idea fiercely, most people accepted it. In fact, the person who held this kind of view just applied mechanically the distinct principle of economics of the Marxism to the theory of the literature art. This kind of principle to the literature art was not only mask or guise, but also chains or fetter. This thesis thinks that the artistic work is not a kind of commodity. It is its material carrier that can be used formarking a price and selling in the market--"text" , but not literature workitself. The "text" is a body that is composed by a series of symbols that are used to describe, narrate ordinal incidents or things. The "literature work" is produced in the course of the reading and appreciating; it is not a kind of commodity, and can t be bought or sold like other things.When the discussion did not develop a further, the circle of literature theory raised another discussion about the value of literature. It was a result of the discussion about whether the artistic work was a commodity. At same time, it was a result of the introspection to the theory that artistic work is a commodity. The talking point of the value of literature lasted for a long period, because of its abundance and its multidimensional meaning. And this discussion of the talking point includes more extensive fields, which set off against the backgrounds of more pluralism social ideological tread in the earlier period of 1990s. This distinguishing feature of this topic made itself develop towards a more humanism, more microcosmic and more individual direction, showing the...