Abstract
As a basic theory of literary research, literary experience has been a hot topic in the field of literary theory once again in the recent decade, but nowadays the understanding and use of this concept is ambiguous and random. The Western modern experience theory provides the basis for studying literary experience, which is an aesthetic presentation of human experience in the fictional world interwoven by discourses, and thus the human experience is born in the collision of perception and fiction. The world of experience is the external context for the generation of literary experience, which requires cultural memory to provide "a transcendental" presupposition and a "totality of historical experiences". In this way the writer becomes capable of feeling, imagining and narrating the world. The perspective marked by fracture in the "structures of feeling" is particularly invaluable in this regard. It is here that stabilized emotional factors gush out with the force of fracture, and become the kernel of literary experience. The capture of the "perceptual opportunity" is a critical shifting point from the mundane world to the experience world. Therefore, the study of literary experience from the aesthetic point of view has become significant to solve the problem of literary theory being too elitist, and to resolve various crises of literary creation.
First Page
106
Last Page
117
Recommended Citation
Wang, Yan. 2017. ""Totality" and "Fracture": the External Context and Internal Opportunity in the Generation of Literary Experience." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 37, (5): pp.106-117. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol37/iss5/1
