Abstract
Since the end of the 20th century, literary studies have gradually become conventionalized and entered into the so-called "post theory" period. What caused this situation? An easily acceptable answer is that there is a "stoppage" in the connection between literature and the life-world. In our view, the underlying cause is the oblivion of man's embodied being. In order to investigate the cause, this article reviews the primitive linkage of the life-world and the body in Husserl's phenomenology, analyzes the "ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy", demonstrates the symptom of "poetics of amnesia" which separates the body and the life-world, and tries to find a way of "returning" to literary studies.
First Page
6
Last Page
14
Recommended Citation
Wang, Xiaohua. 2016. "Body, Life-world, and the Reconstruction of Literary Theory." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (4): pp.6-14. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss4/7
