Literary works have the status of being appreciated and perceived to a certain extent, and can be analyzed according to "intentional objects". This theory comes from Ingarden's thought of "pure intentional object", and after appropriate modification, it takes meaning as the object, materializes matter, and finally unifies the two.
Because ideas and consciousness are interdependent, we should combine the key points with consciousness, and then deeply interpret the works.
Literary works will only be regarded as a real object if they have not entered the aesthetic stage and have not been awakened by consciousness. Only when consciousness makes a work alive can it be embodied in the aesthetic process of readers and transformed into an "intentional object". Only the readers' specific aesthetic value can surpass their own artistic value, and this transcendence needs to inject some thoughts and feelings.
Thus, if artistic value really exists, it should be something that exists in the works and is displayed in the works. Aesthetic value will only be revealed when the overall nature of the work is stipulated. On the other hand, artistic value has always existed in the works, and on the surface it may change with the changes of the times, but its internal and external integration will always exist in the works.
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Contemporary literature and literary criticism should have such a "humanistic" vision and its aesthetic value. However, from the actual situation, people consciously or unconsciously fall into the misunderstanding of literary aesthetic concepts:
The first is the theory of literary aesthetic essence, which regards "aesthetics" as the original feature or the only essence of literature, but does not recognize any other features and functions of literature, which is not conducive to rationalizing literary concepts;
The second is the theory of aesthetic pleasure, which quietly replaces the perceptual liberation in the aesthetic sense with the indulgence of sensory desire in the biological sense, and the spiritual beauty of human beings declines to the sensory pleasure of animals, leading to the decline of aesthetic spirit, which makes the sensibility and rationality in literary aesthetic activities lose balance again, bringing about the alienation of aesthetics and even human nature;
The third is the concept of "aesthetic daily life", whose positive aspect is to make literature and art return from the altar to the people, from the elite to the public, and from art to life. On the other hand, it may make literature and art aesthetics continuously lower the artistic aesthetic level and dispel the real artistic aesthetic spirit in the trend of popularization and secularization.
Fourthly, the concept of "aesthetic entertainment" equates aesthetics with entertainment, and overemphasizes the aesthetic entertainment function of literature to the exclusion of other functions, which leads to the "excessive entertainment", irrationalization, vulgarization and kitsch of current literature, and the loss of literary aesthetic spirit.
China Producer News Network-Values of Contemporary Literary Criticism