Reality and Infinity

Author: Xiao Ying
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: This book is divided into five chapters, with detailed content as follows:
Introduction: The philosophical self-awareness of the current literary historiography, summary of views, socialism and realism,
Rationality and Critique: Classic realism, politicization of art and aestheticization of politics,
Typicality: Idealized individuality of collectivism, the combination of typicalization techniques and nationalization style, realism and epic,
"Non-mainstream" realism;
Modernization and Modernism (Part 1), aesthetics and modernity, the divinization and demystification of love and desire,
self-awareness and the new poetic tide, breaking into the world with "obscure,"
towards infinity: freedom and the unconscious,
facing nihilism: irony and mutation,
tradition and modernity: the dream of seeking roots;
Modernization and Modernism (Part 2), formalist poetics and the avant-garde movement,
stream of consciousness: time, language, narrative games and the possibilities of the self,
infinite desire and the crisis of poetry,
the collapse of autonomy and the glamorous return of "reality";
Writing and market-oriented survival,
the market and "postmodernism": the current survival situation of individuals,
cultural paradox in the context of globalization: the current survival situation of individuals,
the loss of reality and the desire-driven imagination,
individualization, body and women's writing,
deconstructionism: language and fiction,
poetry in the age of secularization / the poetic debate at the turn of the century;
the possibility of authenticity and the reconstruction of historical consciousness,
the individual: in the instant of historylessness,
towards the historical self-generation,
gender/body and history,
history and the cycle of the land,
entering history and the possibility of authenticity,
Conclusion, Afterword.