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The Formation, Development, and Transformation of Contemporary Chinese Literary Criticism

  • WANG Yao , 1 ,
  • LIN Jianfa , 2
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  • 1. School of Humanity, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
  • 2. Editorial Office of Contemporary Writers Review, Shenyang 110041, China

Published date: 05 Jun 2011

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2014 Higher Education Press and Brill

Abstract

In the formation of the contemporary Chinese literary system, literary criticism manifested the demands of “Socialist Literature” and established its basic paradigms in the development of Marxist critical activities. Aimed squarely at interpreting the central values of the contemporary literary system, literary criticism plays a role in the entire process of literary production. Therefore, the relationship between criticism and ideology is one of the most basic issues in the history of literary criticism. In the last three decades, the paradigm of literary criticism has been transformed, but it has not become an independent discipline. The success of this transformation is dependent upon the emergence of sinisized critical theories and the methodical nurturing of reality.

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WANG Yao , LIN Jianfa . The Formation, Development, and Transformation of Contemporary Chinese Literary Criticism[J]. Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 2011 , 5(2) : 234 -250 . DOI: 10.1007/s11702-011-0127-9

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