The Construction Of Literature Canon In The Digital Era

The digital era is a new era, with the essential characteristics different from previous eras. Digitization affects us all aspects, including our spiritual habitat—literature canon. Era without literature, more literature without era. The literature canon of digital era should follow era demand, advancing with the times, to reconstruct the standard of canon, so as to reflect spirit connotation of digital era.The use of digital technology,make the unique literature canon of digital era, but to digital era, literary circles are not elation, on the contrary show unprecedented scare, anxiety and doubt: in digital era literature is going to the end, literature research in the globalization era is still exist, contemporary literature of China is going to where……Digital era as before need literature canon, because it structure a nice spiritual home for human, make people poetically stay in it; literature canon is crystallization of national literature and cultural, it is the symbol of national spirit; literature canon make people perception others'life from literary aesthetic, and use for reference, thus guide own life.At all times and in all over the world, there are various editions about"canon". But canon have these common characteristics: canon is authoritative, is provided with unchangeable, has unique character, can be interpreted repeatedly. The form of literature canon is confined by these: the classical of literature text as aesthetic object, the control of spread rights, history of literature, the eye of literary criticism.Digitization brings in maximum conveniences for literary production, as well as deconstruct literature canon. Digital technology dispel literature connotation and poetry; digital text make esthetic s of language art shrink, word fading away, style of writing at will, literature creation turn into carnival of many people. In the digital era, the otherness among nations and the communication process of mass media misread literature canon. In the digital era, marketization, consumerism, postmodern context, exaggeration classic tortuose literature canon severely. But we still believe, literature of digital era is not end, reader still alive.In the digital era, the construction of literature canon include self-examination of mass media and the reconstruct the standard of literature canon, self-examination of writers and the will of pursue canon, self-examination of readers and pursue text aesthetic, which is need more is interactions of writers, mass media and readers, join forces to construction literature canon in the digital era.