Abstract
Cultural memory, as a stratified construction of memory place, memory time, memory identity and memory classics, provides the basic impetus for the formation of a “Chinese paradigm” in contemporary literary hermeneutics. For over a century, contemporary Chinese literary hermeneutics, in the process of drawing on cultural memory to construct itself, has successively formed three interpretive paradigms, that is, the “aesthetic interpretation” paradigm, which formed during the identity shift of ancient Chinese literary hermeneutics from nationality to modernity; the “public interpretation” paradigm, which formed through the identity transformation of Western literary hermeneutics from Westernness to Chineseness; and the “practical interpretation” paradigm, which formed by the critical turn of Marxist literary hermeneutics from universal principles to concrete practice. These three interpretive paradigms constitute a deconstruction of the “universalist” paradigm of contemporary Western literary hermeneutics and represent the localized development of world literary hermeneutics “in China”. They signify the process in which the “Chinese paradigm” of contemporary literary hermeneutics constructs its dual identity as both “Chinese literary hermeneutics” and “world literary hermeneutics”, which moves toward universality through particularity.
Keywords
cultural memory, contemporary literary hermeneutics, Chinese paradigm, identity
First Page
1
Last Page
15
Recommended Citation
Gu, Pengfei. 2026. "Cultural Memory and the Formation of the “Chinese Paradigm” of Contemporary Literary Hermeneutics." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 46, (2): pp.1-15. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol46/iss2/1
