Transformation and development of digital literary criticism in China

Authors

  • Le Fu Shenzhen University, 3688, Nanhai Avenue, Shenzhen, 518060, China
  • Jingcheng Li Shenzhen University, 3688, Nanhai Avenue, Shenzhen, 518060, China
  • Yonghong Dai Shenzhen University, 3688, Nanhai Avenue, Shenzhen, 518060, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.211

Abstract

This article analyses the digital literary criticism, which got rid of the obsession of academic Babylon in the field of literary criticism in the 1980s and revealed a more diverse field of voice, inspiring endless possibilities of variation in the transformative stage of criticism. The advent of the Internet has created a participatory field for literary criticism and a platform to weaken the distinction between identity and power. Equality disrupts the validity of authority and the structure of the knowledge circle, which is also the reason why digital literary criticism has a certain degree of carnivalesque traits. The authors believe that literary criticism in a digital context is no longer obsessed with the confusion of history and the uncertainty of time. While capturing the pulse of globalisation, it at the same time ardently embraces the value of desire endowed by consumer culture. The article points out that Chinese literary criticism in the new era is a product of the construction of multidimensional relations in a digital context, which sheds the shackles of historical context and rushes into the age of digitalisation. With the rapid flow of consumption, a very open, inclusive, and complex space of media discourse has emerged. The results of the study show that a group of numerous critics belonging to the postmodernist perspective is forming in the digital world. The authors conclude that in the confrontation between tradition and modernity, in the complex interweaving of elitist consciousness and mass consumption, in the struggle for discursive position between media and literature, digital literary criticism differs from traditional in terms of aesthetic standards, criticism style, criticism language and media platform, creating the macro future development of Chinese literary criticism with its independent attitude, revolutionary impulse and irresistible courage.

Keywords:

philosophy of literature, digital context, digital literary criticism, transformation, literary studies

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Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Философия и конфликтология. 2023. Т. 39. Вып. 2

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Published

2023-06-30

How to Cite

Fu, L., Li, J., & Dai, Y. (2023). Transformation and development of digital literary criticism in China. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 39(2), 355–367. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.211

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Vol. 39 No. 2 (2023): Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies

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Cultural studies

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