Abstract
A remarkable event in 2014 Chinese literary criticism was the concept of coercive interpretation proposed by Prof. Zhang Jiang. Coercive interpretation aimed at a theoretical summarization from Chinese perspective of the 20th-century Western mainstream literary theories, especially the various postmodern criticism since 1970s, and it could have the potentials to be Chinese discourse's intervention in the value judgment of Western literary theories. However, coercive interpretation was conceptualized out of the discursive context of and devoid of the support of literary texts. Instead, it resorted to a preset standpoint to interpret texts. This exhibits on the one hand the internal limitation of this concept and on the other hand the theoretical necessity of the concept itself, which, the paper summarizes, may foreclose the potential application of coercive interpretation as a critical parlance.
First Page
77
Last Page
84
Recommended Citation
Lu, Yang. 2015. "On the Idea of Coercive Interpretation." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (5): pp.77-84. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss5/12
