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The genetic structuralism literature sociology, initiated by Lucein Goldman, a French philosopher and literary theorist, is an important branch in the schools of twentieth century western literature sociology and has a unique position in the developing history of western literary theories. However, our home academic circles paid no enough attention to such an important school of literary theory, keeping less general and comprehensive hold on Goldman’s literary theory system. So this thesis, based on others’ achievements, aims to have certain breakthrough and innovations.Through the way of synchronic and diachronic study, this thesis will explore in turn its philosophical basis, theoretic category, cardinal principle, methodology, and features of Goldman’s genetic structuralism literature sociology, striving to present and restore the original features of his literary theory and reveal its theoretic value and contemporary significance. The fundamental viewpoint of my thesis is that built on the basis of dialectical "monism’, Goldman’s literary theory system, taking the unity of the subject and the object, and the combination of factual and value judgment as its foothold and starting point, the "significant structure" as central concept, puts forward the isomorphic theory of literary structure and social one, as well as the dialectical methodology of ’comprehension’ and "interpretation". The theoretic value of Goldman’s genetic structuralism literature sociology is that it insists on the value standpoint of integrating the scientific spirit and humanistic one as a sort of literary theory; as a sort of criticism pattern, it applies operating method of unifying textual structure analysis and social historical structure analysis and integrating the ’comprehension’ and ’interpretation", thus it overcomes the ’non-historization’ of formalistic criticism, and the trend of "non-textualization’ or "pan-textualization’ of social historical analysis. To sum up, Goldman’s literary theory has realized the dialectical integration between tradition and modernity, demonstration and dialectic, scientism and humanism, and history and aesthetic. Therefore, Goldman’s genetic structuralism litefature sociology can not only become one pole in contemporary "multi-dimensional morphemic" literature sociology, but also provide mental sources and theoretic ones which are worth of highlighting for constructing contemporary literary theories with Chinese characteristics.
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