Media Poetics (Literature and Literary Theory from the Perspective of Media)

Author: Zhang Bangwei
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book focuses on examining the cultural dilemmas and development prospects of literary texts as a linguistic art in the information age and media society. It explores the possibilities of literature in new circumstances and frameworks, thereby opening up a highly creative intellectual path for the necessity and feasibility of moving towards media poetics, reconstructing the literary theory of media forms, and largely filling a gap in contemporary Chinese literary academia. The book boasts a broad theoretical perspective, highly relevant and realistic themes, rich yet concise content, rigorous logic, and clear reasoning, making it of great academic and practical significance. The research objectives of this paper are:
First, to deepen the study of the "mediatization" and "mediated" aspects of modern and postmodern literature;
Second, with cultural communication as the lens and "media and literature" as the fulcrum, to interpret the urgency and feasibility of poetics reconstruction;
Third, to explore the literary influence and generative power of media/media fields;
Fourth, to construct the literary field of the media age and analyze the literary significance of newly added elements;
Fifth, to explain the connotation of "media poetics" and the necessity of the research paradigm of "moving towards media poetics," and preliminarily define the research scope of "media poetics";
Sixth, to provide a forward-looking perspective on the future of literature and future literature, and to conduct a rational analysis of the aesthetic value of media literature.
In summary, the fundamental task of this paper is to place the transformation of traditional literary research into contemporary literary research within the structural logic of the media society/media cultural field and against the backdrop of the literary form transition in the media society. This serves as an opportunity to seek a new meaning for literature and poetics.