Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.3, 2019

 

Problematiques in the Field of Literary Theories in Seventy Years

(Abstract)

 

Liu Fangxi

 

Three fields of problematiques have emerged in the progress of Chinese literary theories over the past seventy years. In the first thirty years (from 1949-1979), the relation between literature and politics was the dominate question, when the features of the ideological and non-ideological were highlighted. Since the reform era, the economic influence on literary production became more direct under the framework of market economy. The relation between literature and economy (market) had gradually appeared, and the productivity and non-productivity in the social mode of literary production became accentuated. In the new century, the technical development of internet and AI has laid more imprints on literary production. Hence arises the question of literary and technique (machine), along which comes the question of subjectivity and non-subjectivity of literary production. On the basis of solid theoretical exploration for seventy years and through the lens of critical theory of production-crafts, the Marxist literary theory would find an important opportunity of unifying sociality and craftsmanship and thus integrating the three fields of problematiques.