Foreign Literature Studies ›› 2017, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (6): 10-18.

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Ethical Literary Criticism in View of Eventalization

Liu Yang   

  • Online:2017-12-25 Published:2022-06-15
  • About author:Liu Yang is professor in the Department of Literature of East China Normal University (Shanghai 200241, China). His academic interest mainly lies in Narratology. Email: liutaiyang2001@163.com
  • Supported by:
    “The Deep Literary Mechanism of Eventalization Paradigm” (17YJC751023), sponsored by Social Science Project of the Ministry of Education; “Research on the Three Faces in Post Theory” (2017ECNU-YYJ014), sponsored by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

Abstract: Event focuses on literary ethics, because event, as the tension between narrative and things being narrated, is the product of the subject when it realizes its viewpoint's relativity and gets rid of meta-narrative. It can only be realized in the literary thought and method, and thus the limited viewpoint and literary creation under restrictions inevitably concern ethics. Therefore, the recent eventalization view of the humanities is not only connected with the spirit of Ethical Literary Criticism but also activated and created by the latter. Vertical limited levels and horizontal limited types together provide theoretical basis which can be explained by abundant examples. Thus, we can find that the ethical choice of “how to live better” and the basis of human existence of “how to live is a person” are not two problems separated from each other. The frontier significance of Ethical Literary Criticism thus conforms to the profound modern relationship of Axiology and Ontology.

Key words: eventalization, narrative, limited viewpoint, language symbol, Ecthical Literary Criticism

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