Speech and Order

Author: Zhang Qingmin
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Discourse is a form of thought practice that possesses its own coherence and marginal forms. It is deeply rooted in a complex network of connections with other books, other texts, and other sentences. Additionally, it is influenced by a series of non-discursive factors such as economics, politics, society, history, and culture. Discourse also has its own order. Without order, we cannot accurately judge and explain the laws of knowledge construction. The exploration of the order of things is, in essence, the exploration of the laws of knowledge formation and disciplinary construction. The order of things is deeply embedded in discourse practice, making it quite subtle and ambiguous, hence easier to analyze. Only through patient hypothesis and verification can we proceed. This book is a domestic literary theory of the history of a specific period. Based on very detailed and reliable materials, the author examines the nature, characteristics, functions, generation, development, and trends of literary theory in the 1940s from the perspective of morphological theory, employing the method of "genealogy" in literary theory and discourse stratification analysis. The book provides a panoramic analysis and in-depth research of literary trends, theoretical doctrines, and critical practices of that period, reflecting on its experiences and lessons in a comprehensive manner, and drawing some convincing conclusions.