Contemporary Literary and Art Trends in China (21st Century Chinese Language and Literature Series Textbooks)

Author: Lu Guishan
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Publish Date: 2002-06-17
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 phenomena of literary trends in several stages of 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 supplementary part, it strives to outline the state of contemporary Chinese literary trends, such as metaphysics, axiology, humanism, new historicism, postmodern popular literature, literary criticism, and other literary trends. The book emphasizes grasping the systematic nature of literary trends in theory, making every effort to present and deeply analyze contemporary Chinese literary trends, especially since the New Period, from multiple perspectives. In the arguments, it seeks to achieve a combination of theory and practice, letting facts speak and relying on and emphasizing practice. It consciously grasps contemporary Chinese literary trends through the integration of literary theory, literary creation, and literary criticism.