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 faced by 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 in a large extent, filling a gap in contemporary Chinese literary academia. The book boasts a broad theoretical perspective, highly relevant thematic focus, 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 "media-ness" and "mediatization" of modern and postmodern literature; second, with cultural communication as the perspective 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 new elements in the field; fifth, to explain the connotation of "media poetics" and the necessity of the research paradigm "moving towards media poetics," and preliminarily define the research scope of "media poetics"; sixth, to provide a forward-looking outlook on the future of literature and future literature, and 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 to interpret this transition against the backdrop of the major turning point in literary forms in the media society. This serves as an opportunity to seek a new meaning for literature and poetics.