The Constructs of Literary Form and its Multilateral Relationships

Abstract

Abstract: Literary form is often regarded as a mythical concept. For a fairly long period of time, literary form is always a suppressed object. Be that as it may, scholars have been making attempts to establish a self-contained system of literary form beyond the dimensions of logos, subjecthood and historical contents. This paper investigates the construction of literary form and its relationships with peripheral elements, especially the relationship between literary form and historical content. History has constantly intervened in the structure of literary form, and the literary content is often rendered as a transitory space between them. In this sense, the longstanding debate of the form-content is more of a theoretical fiction.

Key words: literary form, content, history, relationships, structure

Nan Fan. The Constructs of Literary Form and its Multilateral Relationships[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2014, 34(2): 6-20.

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