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Redefine Literature through Chinese Culture: On the Development of Chinese Literature and World Literature in the Age of Globalization

  • ZHANG Fa
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  • College of Humanities, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China

Published date: 05 Sep 2011

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2014 Higher Education Press and Brill

Abstract

Literature, in the age of globalization, has gradually been marginalized with the blossoming of electronic art, while its position as an icon of culture has been highlighted. The tension between these two tendencies currently cannot be relieved by maintaining the mainstream Western definition of literature (literature as fiction, poetry and drama), but alternatively, the definition of literature in Chinese culture (literature as the beauty of language) may provide a better solution. Thus the redefinition of literature through Chinese culture is necessary and essential for literary development in the global age.

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ZHANG Fa . Redefine Literature through Chinese Culture: On the Development of Chinese Literature and World Literature in the Age of Globalization[J]. Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 2011 , 5(3) : 370 -391 . DOI: 10.1007/s11702-011-0134-x

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