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Frontiers of Literary Studies in China

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Front. Lit. Stud. China    2010, Vol. 4 Issue (2) : 253-282    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11702-010-0012-y
Research articles
Literary Criticism, Public Space, and Social Justice
WU Jun,
Research Centre of Modern Chinese Literature, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
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Abstract Taking the profound impacts of generalized system, new electronic media, and subculture into consideration, this paper holds that, presently China has entered an era of comprehensive social transition, along with the tendency that the era of the former unified or centralized literature (criticism) values will come to an end. For this reason, literary criticism will probably go into public space in a generalized form. The formation and bearing of public reason and social justice or moral law should become the conscious duty of current literary criticism. This article, whose textbook cases arise, in the main, out of Renmin wenxue put out from 1949 to 1976, states how the accredited commission to write on the given topics in the general sense has acquired the special status of political culture, and therefore assumed the specially-designated significance, function and value in the literary institution of modern China. And organizing manuscripts not only occupies a direct role in being involved in the creation of literature, but also makes a subtly different history of literature that gives a reflection of the politically motivating force for the authorized literary compositions.
Keywords literary criticism      public space      public reason      social justice organizing manuscripts      cost      
Issue Date: 05 June 2010
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WU Jun. Literary Criticism, Public Space, and Social Justice[J]. Front. Lit. Stud. China, 2010, 4(2): 253-282.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/flsc/EN/10.1007/s11702-010-0012-y
https://academic.hep.com.cn/flsc/EN/Y2010/V4/I2/253
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