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1、LiteraryCriticisminReconstruction:AnIntroductiontoaContemporaryStudyofLiteratureSummaryThepresentvolumejoinstheeffortsofthosethat–swimmingagainstthemainstreamsofpasse-partoutTheoryandculturalstudies–stillwishtopreservethefieldofliterarystudies,although
2、notinitsestablishedform,butthroughafundamentalreconstructioncomprisingbothits“internal”conceptualormethodologicalrearrangementand“external”adjustmenttopostmodernsocial,political,andeconomicrealities.Myaimsare:first,anattemptatconceptualre-constructiont
3、hattakesintoaccountrecentde-constructionsofliterarycriticism’skeynotionsandcriticallyembracestheminarevisedsetofhypotheses,notforgettingtheconstructednessofallknowledge(includingthatofliterature);and,second,toseekcontemporarymeanings,relevance,andfunct
4、ionsofknowledgeaboutliterature.Bothaimsimplyaredistributionofscholarlytopics,methods,andcompetencesthatliterarycriticismhastodealwithifitwishestosurviveinthepresentcontextofdisciplinaryredivisionsandcross-disciplinarymethods(inlinguistics,thesocialscie
5、nces,culturalhistory,psychology,cognitivescience,etc.).Onlybycomingtotermswiththeglobalreconstructionofknowledgeaswellaswithrelocationofscholarlycompetencescanliterarycriticismstillclaimgreatergeneralvalidityandbroadersocialrelevanceforitsinsights.This
6、book,whichcouldbeentitled“SiteunderConstruction,”isanintroductiontotheseproblemsandisdividedintotwoparts.Inthefirstpart,Icommentontheprospectsoftwomainbranchesofliterarycriticism:literarytheoryandliteraryhistory.Inthesecondpart,Itrytoreconstructandrevi
7、sesomebasiccriticalconceptsthatareusedformodelingliterarytextsandtheirtemporalorspatialcontexts.1.Literarytheory.Inpost-modernity,literarytheoryhasbecomepluralistic,perspectivized,and–inparallelwiththeweakenedautonomyofbelletristicwritingandthedeconstr
8、uctionoftheconcept“literature”–intertwinedwiththetransdisciplinary,eclectic,andcriticaldiscourseof“Theory,”whichisdirectedtowardsculturalstudiesratherthantowardsexplorationsoftheartisticfield.Hermeneuticandneo-pragmatistself-reflectionh