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Several problems in the study of literary subjectivity
2 1 century, literary subjectivity has not really been established. Under the new historical conditions and opportunities, it is urgent for us to start from the research of literary theory and the practice of literary creation, and truly build the theory of literary subjectivity into a wonderful flower in China's literary and art circles. Lai Daren said in On Creation, No.2, 2004, Reflections on Some Issues of Contemporary Literary Theory that literary subjectivity is manifested in the love of literature, the life centered on reading and writing, and the pursuit of literary expression and creation. Judging from the literary reality in China today, some people pursue literature not for the value of literature itself, but for other values through literature; Some people understand the subjectivity of literature, not only oppose all external restrictions and constraints, but also refuse any responsibility and moral commitment, which makes some people's literary activities gradually weightless in the state of getting rid of responsibility and control and excessively pursuing freedom. Second, because the previous subjectivity theory overemphasized the individuality of literary activities, some people regarded literary subjectivity as individuality or egoism, which led to the infinite expansion and expansion of individual self-consciousness, and even formed egoism and narcissism complex. Third, the past subjectivity theory overemphasized the realization of spiritual subjectivity and neglected practical subjectivity, which led some people to understand literary activities as pure spiritual activities that can be divorced from reality or transcend practical relations, thus becoming more and more divorced from reality.

The loss of subjectivity is an important symbol of novels in the 1990s, and it is also the product of the spiritual crisis of an era. His personal text writing is based on personal sensory stimulation and life response. Through personal self-filtering, it directly reflects personal feelings about each era or the current feelings about history, and at the same time removes any ideological cover on life and directly conveys the state or experience of life to readers. It can be seen that the prominence of this individual experience is fundamentally an effort to seek human subjectivity. However, once people's subjectivity is unilaterally expressed as individuality, all human activities are attributed to their pure desires and impulses, and the aesthetic value of literature cannot be obtained, in fact, it cannot reflect people's subjectivity. Especially in a country like China, the real individual subjectivity can't be found, let alone eliminated one by one as in western countries. Western postmodernism is about eliminating subjectivity, which is based on the full establishment of human subjectivity in the modernist period. Its capitalism has developed for hundreds of years, and its independence and personality liberation have long been the dominant ideological components. When postmodernism becomes the reaction of modernism, it is urgent for them to eliminate subjectivity. At present, if we still copy the elimination of subjectivity to China, in the words of Jiang Lasheng, we can only "cut our feet and fit our shoes".

To sum up, the construction of literary subjectivity theory should conform to China's national conditions and the characteristics of literary and art circles. Only in this way can the theoretical building of literary subjectivity be rock-solid and beautiful. From the literary reality of our country, on the one hand, contemporary literature is diversified, on the other hand, literary consciousness and subjective spirit are generally weakened. In this case, it is necessary to advocate a dominant literary spirit to overcome the weightlessness caused by excessive pursuit of aesthetic freedom. When we realize our subjective status, we should also realize and recognize the subjective status of others. This intersubjectivity embodies a dialectical position, which is more in line with the modern spirit that contemporary literature not only requires strengthening the consciousness of self-subjectivity, but also does not exclude dialogue and communication with others. This is the literary subjectivity that the times need. At the same time, the pursuit and construction of subjective spirit ultimately need to point to influence and intervene in life practice, so as to promote the change and progress of reality and strive for the realistic liberation and free development of human beings, otherwise it will only weaken literary life and even lead to the loss of literary subjectivity in a certain sense.

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