The Development Of Internet Platform And The Generate Of Contemporary Literature Classics

Internet platform has been forming its own way to publish andspread literary writing with the literary website being more completedand the portable electronics being more popular. Literature have aparticularly close connection to Internet. Literary works which birth onwebsite finally been a print publication also gain the reputation and salewell. The whole literary activities from production to consumption havechanged by Internet which as media technology. This thesis try to analyzethe realtionship between the development of Internet platform and thegenerate of contemporaty literature classics by teasing the elements ofliterature classics and summarizing changes from Internet. It aim at thenew change of classic of literature and the growth and decline of differentliterary powers in context of the development of Internet platform. And itis not to demonstrate which one is classic or stand up for cyber literature. This thesis includes the four chapters. In chapter one, it shows thedefinition and inscapes of literature classics especially their variabilityand constructivism and lists some academic opinions about classics’situation on Internet then raise a question: Do the anxiety of classiccaused by Internet? Chapter two focuses on the relationship betweenliterature and Internet and explain how the media influence and spreadthe literature. Chapter three try to prove Internet not only alter the way ofliterary writing and spreading chiefly from theperspective of technology,but also change the whole literature activity. The four elements ofliterature: universe, artist,work, audience, all of them have new changesafter Internet involve.The last chapter summarize the thesis and introduce three powersbehind the classics and analyze the way they work. The Internet platformseparate the discourse power and make it more harder to build literatureclassic, meanwhile, it also bring the competitor system which enrich theway to generate classic.Internet make classics more classical. The anxietyof classic comes from the competition of three powers, not from theInternet. There exist no fixed model of literary canonization, it istransitional more often.