Abstract
Focusing on the contemporary research of the modern transformation of ancient literary theory in China, the paper intends to expose the implied cultural orientation behind the different ideas of and approaches to the modernization of ancient literary theory. This paper points out that, on the one hand, the approach to the modern transformation take the route from construction in the 1980s to deconstruction in 1990s and that, one the other hand, in terms of methodology, the need for an open system is widely accepted and the discursive power of closed conceptual system is undermined and dissolved. As a result, pluralist and dialogic perspectives and attitude are taken into the thinking and the various cultural resources prompt the scholars to find ways out of the theoretical dilemma of modern transformation of ancient literary theory by way of freedom and commensurability of individuality.
First Page
58
Last Page
67
Recommended Citation
Wang, Yun. 2015. "On the Modern Transformation of Ancient Literary Theory." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (2): pp.58-67. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss2/9
