Abstract
In literary activities, social conventions are not only a more important and fundamental structural element in the narrative structure of discourse but also the fundamental premise for the comprehensibility, creditability, authenticity and criticalness of literary works. The universality of literature originates from the universal validity of social conventions. Social conventions are constructed in the process of social history, and invariably ideologically grounded with embedded power relations. The paper concludes that one major critical function lies in its exposure of the working of power hidden in the social conventions.
First Page
75
Last Page
83
Recommended Citation
Ma, Dakang. 2015. "Social Conventions: The Structural Elements of Literature." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (3): pp.75-83. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss3/16
