New Exploration of Literary Aesthetics in Postmodern Age

As a newly emerging and original discipline,literary appeared in the 1980s in mainland China.After nearly three decades of development,literary aesthetics has shown several typical theoretical paradigms,most of which are products of modernity conversion.With the advent of post-modern age,The Tutorial of Literary Aesthetics by ZENG Fan-ren reflects an entirely new exploration in this area.On the basis of The Tutorial of Literary Aesthetics and with assistance of other works three aspects are discussed: logical starting point,theoretical system,academic characteristics to highlight the concept of literary aesthetics its theoretical pedigree and theoretical contributions.