Contemporary Chinese literary and artistic trends

Author: Lu Guishan
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: Pospelov uses whether there is a clear common creative program as an important criterion to distinguish and define literary trends. This is undoubtedly based on a historical examination of the literary trend phenomena of several stages in European literature since the 17th century, thereby establishing an ideal model of literary trends. However, he absolutizes and generalizes this model, completely failing to recognize the changes in diachronic forms and the differences in synchronic forms of literary trends. He also does not fully consider the different models that literary trends in different nations, regions, and cultures might have, which, to some extent, reflects a theoretical flaw of generalizing from a partial perspective. This book aims to grasp the theory of trends horizontally, emphasizing the theory of trends and using it to encompass the history of trends. Starting from the basic facts of contemporary Chinese literary trends, with the New Period as the main focus and the 17 years after the founding as the secondary focus, it strives to outline the state of contemporary Chinese literary trends, such as metaphysics, value theory, humanism, new historicism, postmodern popular literature, literary criticism, and other literary trends. This book emphasizes grasping the systematic nature of literary trends in theory, making every effort to comprehensively present and deeply analyze contemporary Chinese literary trends, especially those since the New Period, from multiple perspectives. In the discussion, it strives to achieve a combination of theory and practice, letting facts speak, relying on and emphasizing practice, and consciously grasping contemporary Chinese literary trends through the integration of literary theory, literary creation, and literary criticism.