The Understanding And Thinking On The Literature Peripherization

The term "Literature peripherization" was firstly put forward in early 1990s. It drew extensive concern from all circles after that. Peope stated their own ideas and they got diffierent conclusions. The extensive concern from all circles shows the importance of it. This paper fully analyzes the Literature peripherization and researches it systematically.Firstly, the author compares the social status between the ancient literary language and the modern litrary language, which proves that the Literature peripherization exists objectively. Then the author describes it. At last, the author gets a definition for it after comparison. That is:The functional position of the literature gradually develops or has developed from the center to the side. On the basis of this, the author anlyzes the cause of the Literature peripherization with the help of the materalist dialectics. The external cause is the politics, economy, science and technology, and people's ideological concepts and so on. The internal cause is the development of the literary, the lack of the literary education, the dilemma of the litrary production and so on. Then the author analyzes the trend of the Literature peripherization in four aspects. The first is the marginalization of the literary's social function; the second is the marginalization of the literature-creating subject and the literature-creating activity; the third is the marginalization of the literary text's survival mode; the fourth is the marginalization of the consumer's accceptance and the literary criticism. We will have further understanding of the Literature peripherization through the four-aspect analysis.Then, the author analyzes the meaning of the Literature peripherization with the help of the materalist dialectics. The author thinks that the Literature peripherization has its negative parts, namely, the increasing influence by the market, the decreasing quality of the works, the degenerating aesthetic ability of the readers, and so on. However, the author also realizes the positive parts, namely, this kind of literature has a relatively free envoronment. This is helpful to the self-development of the literature, offering more liberty rights of the writers, offering more chances for the public to join the literary creation. This kind of analysis helps us to know the development status of the literature,and develop the literature. At last, the author analyzes the trend of the literary development under the background of the Literature peripherization, which is a kind of diversification developing trend. We should be full of confidence to the future of the literature and own optimistic attitude.