The Study On The Literary Conception Of Constructivism

Since the middle and late of 20 th century, Constructivism has been very popular in the world. And it has swept across all areas of society. It has brought new ideas, new way of thinking and a new methodology into the areas. In addition, it has promoted the production and innovation of knowledge in various fields and has updated the people’s concept.Constructivism turns to literature and art, which is the Contemporary choice of literary development. This article takes the literary thought of constructivism as the research object. In order to grasp the literary thought of constructivism more comprehensively and reasonably, it states its key origin to get the core connotation of constructivism from the source. In the 1990 s, market economies developed gradually.Postmodernism rose in China. And some new literature phenomena such as aestheticization of everyday life, mass culture and cultural studies occurred.Therefore, rigidity Conceptions, old knowledge and lagged development in the Chinese literary theory were increasingly apparent. Its core connotations became to be clearer in the process of argument with essentialism and anti-essentialism.Constructivism holds that literature is a discursive construction under the specific time and space, studying literature needs open and diverse thinking mode and consensus on the nature of literature will built through dialogue. Of course, constructivism has its rationality in the present. Meanwhile, some limitations lay in it. For example, it attaches great importance to the relation between literature and others but light the autonomy of literature. It emphasizes on knowledge and ignores the value. So the author advocates that we should construct the knowledge about the nature of literature dialectically. We must adhere to the unity of self-discipline and heteronomy, the unity of epistemology and value, mutual construction between literature and people or the society and so on. Then we will achieve the reconsideration of literature and promotethe present development of literary criticism practice and the richness and diversity of literary. Eventually, we can effectively get involved in the present development of socialist culture and contribute to it.