The Imagination Of Literary Aesthetic In The 21st Century

Literature is an important category in the field of symbol ideographic in human aesthetic activities, is responsible for the mission of expressing aesthetic experience with language symbolic forms. There are different views on aesthetic properties of literature in the East and West, but it has become the consensus that the literature is an art of language expressing the aesthetic properties of human. From the aesthetic consciousness of the literary critics in Wei -Jin Dynasties China to the argument of the 1980s Aesthetic Ideology ; from the discussion that the literature and art should be created through the "law of aesthetic " by Marx in 1844 to the spirit of literary aesthetic held highly by Harold Bloom, despite the proliferation state of a variety of today's trendy cultural criticism in 1994, there is every indication that the discussion on the value of literary aesthetic is the starting point and ultimate purpose of the study of literature.Chinese literature between the late 1970s to 1980s is in the exciting pursuit of"literary consciousness", showing a"heavy and intense"concern and accountability for the current situation and the strong sense of "exploration and innovation ", facing the "history" question of the specific circumstances.In contrast to the spirit of literature aesthetic in"the new period", literary aesthetic takes on a new quality in face of the influence of a new era from the mid-1990s to the decade of the 21st century.In the context of the"trending zero distance"and"image / simulacra"created by high-tech and the network of the 21st century, as well as the consumption-oriented culture in our social life, the aesthetic spirit of writers, readers and critics is faced with the predicament by interest in varying degrees. The increasingly swelling materialism of contemporary social life is engendering a situation with overwhelming power to destroy our spiritual groundwork, gradually eroding our aesthetic taste of the new century literature! As a"human science", literature should shoulder the sacred mission of caring for the social and human more consciously by the spirit of a pursuit of truth, goodness, beauty, and love.Taking literary aesthetic as the research object and taking the nature of literary aesthetic into the first consideration, as an attempt, the text studies the fate of literary aesthetic in the context of"trending zero distance", image and simulacrum, popular literature of the 21st century, from discussing, then explores the effective ways of sticking to the spirit of literature aesthetic from three levels with writers, readers and the construction of the "literary field " in the 21st century.