Wandering "literary"

The nature of literature or ("literariness") is a core issue in literary study. There are three kinds of thinking in the history of the literariness studies. First is"seeking the different", second,"seeking the same", third,"purification". And it is the interaction of the three thinkings that make the definition of"literariness"constantly unstable.Under the guidance of"seeking the different", the traditional study on"literariness"focuses its attention on seeking the differences between the literature and other disciplines, which generalizes the multiple natures of literature, but meanwhile falls into the trap of essentialism due to expounding arbitrarily the characteristics and values of literature.In the modern literary theory,"literariness"construction of formalism tries to break through the traditional study way,"facing the itself", formalism aims to explore what is specifically literary in text, first, this thinking is caught up excessive analysis of language theory, second, it has lost the theory tension and vitalities when facing the reality because of its separating literature from the society.In the contemporary literary theory,"the spread of literariness"which can prevent the traditional essentialism and modern formalism from being separated from society, but has obviously many disadvantages, in theory origins, context judgments, applying conception, study methods and study objects.From the systematic analysis above, studies on the nature of literature or ("literariness") require the coordination of"the external study"and"the internal study", and the interaction make the thoughts of seeking"the different"and"the same", in order to find the best answer approach to the development of social culture and contemporary literature. Any form of extremism in a literary theory can undermine the legitimacy of the theory, also the theory itself.