Abstract
"Literary self-consciousness" and "literary unconsciousness" were not issues that Cao Pi had realized, yet when contemporary people offer their critique of Cao Pi's literary views from these perspectives, there emerge such problems as "fitting Chinese cases into Western discourse", "interpreting ancient literature with contemporary ideas" and "fragmentation". In terms of literary discourse construction in the time of Jian'an, Cao Pi's "A Discourse on Literature" was the discourse construction of original literary criticism from the perspective of "state-oriented essays" and the discussion axis of "author consciousness", which was a total literary project based on national consciousness. Its concepts of "literary spirit", "literati", "essay", "style" and so on and its establishment of integral criticism were all meaningful and original literary criticism discourse, which embodied the complexity, ambiguity and integrality of the formation of literary views in the Han and Wei dynasties.
First Page
138
Last Page
145
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Yuelin, and Yang Yang. 2019. "State-oriented Essays and "Author" Consciousness: Discourse Construction of the Original Literary Criticism of "A Discourse on Literature"." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (1): pp.138-145. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss1/12
