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Media Field "literary Facts" Through Change

Posted on:2009-01-26Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360245475892Subject:Literature and art
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The key problem of present literary research is to understand and deal with literature phenomena as "literature marginalization", "literature termination", "literature generalization" etc, the emergence of which is nearly all correlated with the media.By using relevant media theories, this article tries to investigate to what extent the media changes the existing way of literature and to what degree literature keeps its own independence in the process of acclimation and assimilation to the media, which means the way of ''Continuity and Mutation" in literature. Continuity can help the literature to retain its vitality while mutation can help it to last for ever. By borrowing Bourdiu's Field Theory and Habermas's Public Sphere Theory, the study puts forward the concept of media field, presents heterogeneous tendency of various interacting strengths through the whole,dynamic and historical method, rather than in the linear,static,abstract and scattered homogeneous way. The study strives to avoid making interior / exterior choice and self-discipline / heteronomy differentiation in literature explanation.First, literature is put into the network of the media field to be investigated, influenced by all kinds of factors in the field, including various media in the field,ideology multiplying, proliferating and inflating with the assistance of the media,political and marketing ones. The author attempts to avoid technology determinism starting off from the media.Second, the text studies literature aftermath in the media field and the deflection of the media, which are differentiation of different media influences,historic nature literature presents. Why literature is literature, the quality of being independent deposited in literature history and the suitability influenced by all kinds of factors in the field, is penetrating the whole article as the main logical line.Third, media and literature are the logical knots of the research. At present among the researches about the relation between them, some deflect to the description of literature aftermath of the media, some regard literature as footnote of the media theory. The author thinks they don't find the knit of the media and literature or logical stitching. The article carries out a two-way propulsion of two knots from the media and literature, makes the stitching stay in the "main body". The media construct the subject which determines the being and the way of being of literature works. Works exist in two fields: author,works and the world; appreciator,works and the world. The former focuses on creation while the latter pays more attention to reading. However, creation and reading are both in the world. They are both related with the subject in the world. Therefore, the way and meaning of being are from the subject in the world.According to the thinking described above, the main content is as follows:Part one, the article attempts to reveal different characteristics of the subjects in the leading field of a certain medium through the changes of the media. Then, from the historical subject it investigates the construction of the real subject by the field of media. Nowadays, a lot of people survive in various media whether taking a certain medium or some media as the leading factor. Because different media have different code rules and form different yardsticks toward the subject, the field of various media enables the subjects to have much possibility to obtain many kinds of yardsticks. The subject may have a lot of " Avatars " meeting different needs. The media field constructs the subject of desire eager to realize various possibilities.Part two, under the reference system of " Continuity and Mutation ", the article attempts to comb the roles that the creating subjects bear in the literature history, differentiate and analyze the desires of the subjects which literature can meet, and expound the way of creation of literature which gives play to the media advantage—possibility and reality surmounting virtuality under the function of other factors in the media field.Part three, through borrowing the concepts of symbol" and "inter-text", the article probes into the possibility and reality with a whole view that literature reading satisfies the various desires of the subject in media field, so as to prove the necessity of literature reading.This text attempts to break through this kind of opposing thinking mode because the sudden emergence of the new media has caused the crisis of the language code and the decline of literature. Under the whole linguistic context in the field of media, literature should be put into the dialectical development view "Continuity and Mutation ", forming the contacts with other media and at the same time keeping its own advantage of media development.
Keywords/Search Tags:the media field, the subject of desire, virtuality, fiction, inter-text
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