What is the self-referentiality of literature?

Category: Culture/Art>>Literature>>Novel

Problem description:

This is a question about literature and art. Is there any academic hero? I know, please help me answer

Analysis:

There are three attributes in the basic characteristics of literary language: self-referentiality, indirect reference, and virtual reference.

Self-referentiality, or literary self-sufficiency (self-referentiality). The so-called "literariness" is not a self-sufficient category, but is always proposed with reference to some related opposing categories, such as literature/politics, literature/society, literature/commercialization, etc. Without an object of reference or an imaginary opposite, it is virtually impossible to discuss literature. When "literariness" is raised as a problem, it is often when it feels that the pressure from "non-literary" is too strong or its self-sufficiency is too obvious. At the same time, this also shows a quality of literature from an important aspect, that is, literariness is not a characteristic of the text itself.