Abstract：Contemporary literary theory has experienced a change process from humanism to post-humanism, or from essentialism to anti-essentialism and then to irony. In particular, the anti-essentialism led by cultural studies has become the discourse representation of contemporary literary theory from “literary theory” to “theory” and then to “post-theory”. It can be said that the essentialist literary theory centered on “aesthetics” is generated based on the refution of “subordination theory” and “instrumentalism”, while the “anti-essentialism” is generated in the discourse context of “cultural studies”. Therefore, the evolution process of contemporary literary theory can be concretized as the evolution process from revolutionary discourse (external research) to essentialism (aesthetics and language) to anti-essentialism (culture, media and meaning). Paradoxically, many controversial topics in contemporary academia, such as the hollowing out of literary research, literary theory without literature and forced interpretation of literature by theory, make the field of literary research have a theoretical appeal to return to the “essentialism” research with “aesthetic” as the center. Moreover, in order to study the evolution of contemporary literary theory and the discourse logic of its future development, and further understand the context and historical track of the development of contemporary literary theory, it is necessary to return to the “historical scene” ── the local travel and discourse construction process of essentialist literary theory with “subjectivity” and “ontology” as the center. Essentialism is regarded as the knowledge starting point and reference frame of literary theory in the new period. These are the trigger points and values of studying the local travel and discourse construction of contemporary essentialist literary theory.
罗崇宏. 当代“本质主义”文论的本土旅行及话语建构[J]. 《深圳大学学报》（人文社科版）, 2023, 40(1): 131-142.
LUO Chong-hong. Local Travel and Discourse Construction of Contemporary Essentialist Literary Theory. , 2023, 40(1): 131-142.
2023, Vol. 40 
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