Concept reduction and historical theory construction of classical literature—Reflections on the writing of early Chinese literary history
September 14, 2024 09:38 Source: Chinese Social Sciences Magazine Author: Jiang Ronggang

  bet365 live casino games The terminology of Chinese literary concepts has changed from "articles" to "literature" in modern times。During this transitional period, two classical literary history writing paradigms emerged, based on the concept of "article" and based on the concept of "literature",And the corresponding views on literary history: "the quality of literature changes over time", "the style changes (or changes)" and "literary consciousness" and "the style changes over time"。These two literary views and their literary history writing have their own biases,Difficult to adapt to the new needs of the development of the times。The spread of Marxist historical materialism and literary theory in China,Injecting new development impetus into the writing of classical literary history and the construction of historical theory,And thus produced outstanding and influential literary history works,The view of literary history guided by historical materialism has therefore become the mainstream view of literary history in the subsequent writing of classical literary history。Continue to follow the guiding principles of historical materialism,Reflection on the literary concept system and the construction of historical theory in early literary history writing,Discover the lessons learned,will help to build a literary tradition that is both suitable for local people,Chinese literary discourse system and research system facing reality and the future。

  Keywords:Classical Literature  "Article"  "Literature"  View of literary history  Historical materialism

  AuthorJiang Ronggang,Professor, School of Humanities, Hangzhou Normal University (Hangzhou 311121)。

Editor: Zhang Jing
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