Body, Life-world, and the Reconstruction of Literary Theory

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Abstract: Since the end of the 20^th century, literary studies have gradually become conventionalized and entered into the so-called "post theory" period. What caused this situation? An easily acceptable answer is that there is a "stoppage" in the connection between literature and the life-world. In our view, the underlying cause is the oblivion of man's embodied being. In order to investigate the cause, this article reviews the primitive linkage of the life-world and the body in Husserl's phenomenology, analyzes the "ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy", demonstrates the symptom of "poetics of amnesia" which separates the body and the life-world, and tries to find a way of "returning" to literary studies.

Key words: body, life-world, literary, theory, reconstruction

Wang Xiaohua. Body, Life-world, and the Reconstruction of Literary Theory[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2016, 36(4): 6-14.

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