A Reconsideration and New Construction of a View of Literary History:Narrativity
Denoting the writing of literary history with narrativity is chiefly to display a view of literary history,namely,literary history is written based on facts and empirical evidence.Yet its essence is of narrativity with strong subjectivity and aesthetic appeal.Besides facts and objectivity,the writing of literary history is also re-lated to imagination,fiction and construction.In this sense,a narrative literary history,with its respect of facts in a general sense and historical facts in a particular sense,consciously emphasizes the author's subjectivity and view of literary history.This view,taking account of the author's subjectivity,is a revision of and supple-ment to the traditional view of literary history.