Zhang Jiong researcher in my presentation entitled "Why the literature," the academic report

2010 年 5 月 11 日 (Tuesday) 9:30 before I Director and Research Fellow in the conference room for Mr. Zhang Jiong, entitled "Why the literature," the academic report, the internal and external scholars and graduate students listened to the report, a lively discussion.

Nearly three decades, China's economic construction as center, the transition to a market economy, literature was toward the edge, and the emergence of electronic media and image era, some scholars believe that literature will have to die. Literary theory but also to produce a view that literary theory has nothing to research, literary theorist should be turned daily life point of view of aesthetics. In this regard, Zhang Jiong teacher a question, that is, what is literature? In the end what for?

Zhang Jiong teachers learn from the system theory point of view and way of thinking about the nature of literature, to re-examine the literature is the language of art, is a social ideology, is the aesthetic ideology of the old literature of these three propositions, and from the literature through the perspective of four new external relations to understand the nature of literature, that literature and politics, and economy, and culture, and society. Clarify the literature and the four elements and the relationship between contact and difference between, for understanding the essence of literature is very important. Literature and politics are not necessarily hostile, in fact, many of the best works of literary history are its high political thinking and progressive political tendencies and show great. Close contact with the political nature of literature is one aspect. We should oppose corruption literature as reactionary politics, and to combat the literature into a political mouthpiece of the simple into the works of political conceptualization and formulation, should not generally opposed to the close relationship between literature and politics. Literature and Culture more there have always been a close relationship. Literature is an important part of culture, while literature is an important carrier of cultural information and media. In turn, the culture and improve the quality of literature provides a wide range of spiritual and intellectual support. About the relationship between literature and economy, Zhang believes that the current due to economic globalization and the establishment of market economy in general, the impact of its literature is more apparent. First, it makes the literature in addition to aesthetics, but also established the nature of commodity and industry. Changes in economic conditions, especially in science and technology promoted by the development of productive forces, the media and literary modes of transmission have also been a new revolution. The laws of commodity production, necessitating the production of literature has brought changes, economic relations have not only changes the nature of literature, new terms, but also the literature as to promote economic growth and prosperity is an integral part of an active factor. Zhang pointed out that today we must study the social research literature to study the basic performance of the object as a literary society, relationships, interpersonal structure and conditions of people's lives but also the social nature of literary production and social consumption. The relationship between literature and society is double sided. On the one hand, literature can influence social innovation or stability. On the other hand, social structure and social life changes will affect very much the style of literature and literary development. Literature evolve with the evolution of society, which is also one of the essential law of literature.

Finally, Zhang and what literature is literature on what the problems were summarized as: literature because it has the multi-level multi-dimensional nature and function, in each country and nation on energy development and its soft power, are plays an important role. Literature as a language arts not only enrich and promote the development of national languages, literature, social life, as reflected in the product of people's minds, and may be the mirror of the times, living encyclopedia, has a profound understanding of the value of history, literature, but also effectively dissemination of culture, to meet the aesthetic needs of a wide range of people, in particular, to enhance people's spiritual and moral level, cultivate people's health and aesthetic interest and lofty sentiments, showing the formation and development of national soul; literature and even the economic and cultural resources also has value for create wealth. Literature also by acting on the political, to promote overall social transformation and innovation. Moment, reality does have a literary creation of many new developments and changes, not only more and more categories of literature, the emergence of sub-literary category, but also to the boundaries of literature and non-fiction blur, the network literature, the emergence of mobile phone literature as well as literature and film, music and other marriage, the rise of documentary literature and the commercialization of industry literature, but also to literature what really brought new theoretical issues. When we discuss the nature of literature from the need to pay attention to a variety of new literature in general and between the special and differential.