Abstract
Realistic contexts define the construction of literary criticism, and they function through the practices in reality. The current historical period since 1980s has been characterized by social transformation which shows a general feature of interaction between criticism and construction. This period is in turn divided into four different phases characterized by the critique of rationalism, contingent continuation of rationalism, direction selecting, and neo-rationalist spirit construction, while the neo-rationalist spirit is constructed along all the phases. The neo-rational spirit was proposed and named in the 1990s, and the neo-rationalist spirit in literary theory shows in the four aspects of humanism, modernity, the revaluation and inheriting of tradition, and the mass culture.
First Page
4
Last Page
14
Recommended Citation
Gao, Nan. 2013. "Rationalist Criticism in China's Current Social Transformation and the Neo-Rationalist Spirit in Literary Theory." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (3): pp.4-14. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss3/21
