Title: The Reaffirmation of the Literature’s Aesthetic Value by the Aesthetic Turn in the Western Literary Theory

Abstract: In the 20th century, Western literary theory flourished, but the “literariness” advocated by formalism was not widely valued. Since the rise of structuralism in the 1960s, many schools have not studied the aesthetic value of literary works. Harold Bloom has almost single-handedly defended the aesthetic value of literature. The aesthetic turn of literary studies is not only a reconstruction of aesthetic criticism, but also a reaffirmation of the aesthetic value of literature.

Keywords: western literary theory, aesthetic turn, aesthetic criticism

Author: Chi Zhang, Professor, Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China.

DOI: 10.19967/j.cnki.flc.2024.04.002